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Elementary school students Takaki and Akari hold special feelings for each other. However, upon graduation, they are separated when Akari moves away.

They continue their correspondence as junior high school students, but this time, Takaki is also transferred to a new school in Kagoshima. Takaki goes to see Akari in the heavy snow to meet her before she moves out, but...

Time passes, and Takaki, now a senior in high school on Tanegashima Island, finds himself staring off into the distance, despite the fact that Kanae, a girl in his class, has taken a liking to him. For Kanae, Takaki was her nearest and dearest, a distant admirer.

When Takaki eventually becomes a working adult in Tokyo, he is busy with his work and the cityscape loses its luster day by day, and his thoughts wander back to his almost forgotten memories of those days.