You come back to a place you thought you'd forgotten, and every person there has been waiting for you to remember them. The 2002 version moves fast, brutal with its 13 episodes, refusing to let sentimentality soften the fact that time doesn't stop for anyone. Each girl's arc hits you differently because the show understands that love isn't one story, it's the weight of seven years of living without someone, compressed into the moment they look at you again and you finally recognize what you lost.

Yuuichi Aizawa has changed schools many times because of his parents' work, and when they leave for Africa he moves back in with his aunt Akiko in a small, snowy northern town he last saw seven years ago. His memories of the place and its people have mysteriously vanished, so even his cousin Nayuki, once a constant playmate, feels like a stranger. While unpacking he finds a red headband nobody recognizes, one of the first clues that stir fragments of his past. One by one, girls tied to his forgotten childhood reenter his life, each changed by what has happened to her in the years between. As secrets and broken promises come to light, Yuuichi senses that something supernatural is at work. The result is a drama and romance with a slice-of-life rhythm and supernatural touches.