The summer setup is a fake-out. You think you're watching kids make a movie. By episode three, you realize the camera is just an excuse for them to finally say things they've been holding back for years. The romance doesn't meander or dodge, it actually resolves, and when it does, the show proves it understood these people the whole time. Watching characters actually grow into different versions of themselves instead of cycling through confession scenes is rarer than it should be.

While trying out his camera on a bridge one summer night, Kaito Kirishima spots a blue light crossing the sky and is knocked off the railing, and a hand reaches for his just before he blacks out. He wakes the next morning in his own room, unhurt and unable to remember what happened. Back at school, he and his friends settle on shooting a film with the camera over the summer break. His friend Tetsurou Ishigaki notices Kaito's interest in Ichika Takatsuki, a new upperclassman, and invites her and her friend Remon Yamano to join the project. What begins as a way to pass the holiday grows more personal as relationships among the group shift in unexpected directions, pushing everyone to face their true feelings. The result is a romantic comedy-drama with a science fiction thread running through its slice-of-life story.