"I could go on forever on the list of things I didn't do. I didn't say "I love you" enough, didn't hug you enough, didn't hold your hand enough. I took it all for granted, every last bit of it. I guess the truth of it all is that I was scared of getting hurt so I subconsciously kept my distance and I hate myself so much for it. You could have stayed. You had a choice, Layne."

To save his first love, a shy Japanese teenage boy must prove to a Shinigami (Japanese death god) that love exists by making it fall in love with him. When the shinigami invades his life, disrupting all his relationships and even coming in between him and his girlfriend, the horror, and impossibility of making death love him begins to sink in. Unable to even define love, he wonders if the shinigami might be right. Perhaps love isn't real after all. Surrounded by the souls of those who died when love failed them, which are transforming into monstrous yokai, Michi perseveres. He desperately risks what remains of his life, determined that not even death will separate him from the one he loves.