Erika Kurokawa's father moves from Setagaya, Tokyo, to Nainital, a hill station in the scenic foothills of the mighty Himalayas, where she meets a strange boy in a place that people say does not exist. She must adjust to the strange town, high mountains, prejudice, and deep forests of many mysteries. But in her self-discovery of teenage years, she stumbles along many obstacles in the road to her heart. What looks just over there in the mountains, may actually be very, very far away.