Ichigo Nekoda (Aki Kajiwara) is a manga artist with writer's block. Her last hit was 12 years earlier with "Cherry Road," a shojo manga (girls' comic) that ended with the handsome hero's motorbike fallen on the road. With funds in her bank account dwindling, and under additional pressure from her manager Tomoko (Miho Miyazawa), Nekoda is desperate for inspiration. After a night of heavy drinking at her favorite transvestite bar, she is knocked unconscious avoiding a passing truck. She wakes up in a beach house managed by the real-life model for her hero (Manabu Oshio), in reality the love of her teenage life, who really died in a motorbike accident she blames herself for!