Self-serving adults and broken dreams push a teenage boy trapped in a dead-end town closer and closer toward the abyss. Reiji's life is as miserable as the small town he can't escape. The most interesting thing that's ever happened there is a double suicide down by the river. Does Reiji have any power over his fate, or will he too fall into the abyss? Reiji's teacher Shiba and old friend Gen are both determined to prevent him from killing himself, but their motives aren't pure and their methods are dubious. Meanwhile, his true friend Chako obsessively pursues the writer she hero worships, while pop idol Nagi schemes to keep her hooks in Reiji.