Onoda Shizuru is a university student in Kyoto. As soon as she starts living out her long cherished desire, the strange horror newspapers begin to arrive. At first, she believes them to be a prank but the stories in the newspapers begin happening one after the other. Murders, accidents, abuse, natural disasters, injustice... these newspapers predict all sorts of tragedies. What is the truth behind them?
The protagonist, Miharu Mochizuki (27), is a young photographer. She won a prize in a competition a few years ago, which got her noticed. However, the only job she has now is shooting flyers for a supermarket. As he struggles to come to terms with the harsh reality of his life, a chance brings him back to his hometown of Toyohashi.
In the summer of 2021, Otsu Akari returns home to Hirose Yana, surrounded by lush mountains and pure flowing water.
The reason she returned home was to report an exciting job offer she had received. However, while reporting it, she is informed that the job offer has been cancelled due to the company going bankrupt.
Akari is even more shocked when she discovers that her beloved grandmother Saeko is suffering from dementia. After a long absence, Akari's life at home with her family starts again...
In the autumn of 2020, Ikezawa Mari (Uchida Rio) returns as a reporter of a television programme to the town of Hida Furukawa in Gifu Prefecture for the first time in almost 10 years. Her father Seiji (Ukaji Takashi) is the chief brewer at a local sake brewery. Although she asked him for permission go to Tokyo so that she could succeed as an actress in the metropolis, the only role she actually played was a dead body with no lines. Mari has been selected as a reporter for the programme because of a mission. That is to shoot a video of the festival floats used during the Furukawa Festival which has been cancelled this year due to the pandemic. If she can persuade her father who is also the chairman of the committee for the preservation of festival floats, her secret pact with the programme’s producer to act in a drama will come true.