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Tooru Igarashi is a lecturer with charisma, working at a prestigious preparatory school. Recently, he drinks a lot and his life falls apart. Maki Endo is a student at a part-time high school. Every day, she is exhausted with working multiple jobs to cover her expenses. One day, Tooru and Maki happen to meet each other. Maki wants to graduate high school to get a regular job and asks Tooru to tutor her for her test-retest. After Tooru quit his prep school job, he has lost his pride and passion to teach. Tooru was also diagnosed to have only a year left to live. He decides to teach Maki and get her into the University of Tokyo.

Nao Miyaji, a down-to-earth, contented housewife and mother of teenage boy, has no interest in dressing up. However, her life completely changes one day after she happens to get scouted by Junko Kurosawa, the chief editor of popular female magazine Vanity, to be a model. Nao steps into the world of a fashion magazine that she has never even read before despite her prejudice against its superficiality that absolutely does not agree with her and her own reluctance to "looking beautiful". She gradually begins to discover a new set of values in the process of coming in contact with Eri Okita, a writer who is at a critical stage in her career, and Yukako Hamaguchi, a stunningly beautiful and professional top model. That is the female desire to be beautiful and to be loved at all times.

In the late '70s and '80s, rebellious skateboarders turn abandoned pools and pipes near Mt. Baldy into their playground, creating a subculture that defies the mainstream and leaves a lasting impact on the skateboarding world.