Tomoya, a production assistant for a television company in Japan, hear the news with the rest of the crew that Aoi has been killed in an air crash in Death Valley, California. He reflects upon his friendship with this feisty young woman who left the country to broaden her horizon as an aspiring director. He took the job she left, and ironically they firt met when he attempted to bribe her away from her job at a record store so that he could be near her co-worker, a girl he wished to date. Although conidered a nuisance at firt, Aoi finds him a bit of a kindred spirit and casts him in a leading role in her college student film, "The End of the World" which she has written and will direct. Aoi takes the leading role opposite Tomoya when her leading actress Kyoko refuses to do a kissing scene. The two continue to conole each other about their lack of romantic relationhips and job opportunities in an outwardly platonic manner, but underneath deeper currents are running. Aoi's ...

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