A 14-year-old actress and a dismissive director collide, and the show trusts you to feel the charge without spelling it out. The 90s aesthetic isn't window dressing, ferns in pastel rooms, motorcycle rides through neon streets, that specific way light hits painted backgrounds, it becomes the actual language of attraction. One episode, no bloat, no time for the romance to calcify into melodrama.
Teenage TV actress Mio Hagiwara has become popular when she meets Ichiya Kumagai on a set, and he bluntly tells her that her acting is bad. The remark hurts, yet she cannot put him out of her mind. Ichiya turns out to be a promising young director who made a music video for Mio's friend Aya Sawaki, an idol singer. After that video succeeds, he is asked to direct a movie, and he wants Mio as its heroine because he sees her as a "handsome" girl in the manner of actresses from the past. Mio has to deal with her feelings for him in this single-episode romance, which also takes in her school life and friends.
