Two strangers find themselves linked in a bizarre way. When a connection forms, will distance be the only thing to keep them apart?

Told in three interconnected segments, we follow a young man named Takaki through his life as cruel winters, cold technology, and finally, adult obligations and responsibility converge to test the delicate petals of love.

A high-school boy who has run away to Tokyo befriends a girl who appears to be able to manipulate the weather.

A 15-year-old boy and 27-year-old woman find an unlikely friendship one rainy day in the Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden.

A coming of age story involving young love and a mysterious music, coming from a crystal radio left as a memento by an absent father, that leads a young heroine deep into a hidden world.

In an alternate postwar timeline, Japan is divided into the Union-controlled North and the US-controlled South.