In 2010, Yoshiyama Kazuko works as a pharmaceutical researcher secretly developing a formula for time travel. When she is left comatose after a car accident, her daughter Akari learns of her mother's first love, Fukamachi Kazuo, from Kazuko's friend Asakura Goro. Believing that finding Kazuo will allow her mother to regain consciousness, Akari uses Kazuko's formula to leap back in time to the 1970s in hopes of finding a younger Kazuo. Instead, she meets and befriends Mizorogi Ryota. Together, they attempt to search for Kazuo, but love begins to blossom between Akari and Ryota, despite the fact that Akari must eventually return to the future. ~~ Adapted from the novel "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" (時をかける少女) by Yasutaka Tsutsui (筒井 康隆).