High school student Hodaka has had enough of idyllic country life and decides to seek his fortune in Tokyo. He soon realises that life in the big city is not only exciting, but above all expensive. He spends lonely days and threatens to become destitute until he luckily finds a job as an editor at a dubious occult magazine. As if his difficult start in the big city were a harbinger of things to come, it has been raining incessantly since his arrival. But one day, by a twist of fate, he meets the young Hina. She is strong-willed and has the special gift of influencing the weather and making the city sparkle in beautiful sunlight. But it soon becomes clear that this mysterious gift also has its dark side ...