The year is 2000. Ikuko Kanazawa, a 23-year-old Japanese girl, is unsure about the prospect of marrying her boyfriend, Horoshi. she wants more experience of travel and gones to England, to improve her English, promising Hiroshi she'll marry him when she returns. Life abroad is danunting at first, as she notes in her diary, but she settles into the new routine. At the student hostel, she gone to the photography club, where she meets Zambian photography, Bernard Chiluba, whose work she admires. Later, she has a chance encounter with Bernard, who shows her round the city. There is a mutual attraction. Bernard realises she plans to marry, but Ikuko is now unsettled-he is so different from Hiroshi. Soon, Lucretia, a fellow student, suspects they are more than friends.