Toru Aoki a bachelor living in Shinjuku is one of those people who wouldn't catch your attention in a crowded place. A regular person with a regular lifestyle and a regular name. A person like you and me with nothing special about them or their life. who wakes up every morning eats their breakfast works blankly in a 9 to 5 dead-end job gets back home, has dinner and repeats the entire process once again the next day. So why am I telling you his story? what impact would reading his story make? probably nothing for most people. But for some living dead it might light a spark of hope. When Toru wakes up one morning with the news of his landlord passing away. His existence is put into question by the whirlpool of emotions.