Thirty-two-year-old manga creator Naruhiko Tohno has spent a decade struggling to make a living and reaches a crisis when his latest series is canceled. Although he has always wanted to draw fantasy, his editor suggests something completely different: a slice-of-life manga inspired by the remote village where Naruhiko himself grew up. Returning creatively to familiar people and places forces a reclusive artist to reconsider what kind of story—and life—he actually knows well enough to tell.