On a spring day Munakata Ikujou visited an old temple to view a 1000 years old sakura tree. There Ikujou discovered a 3-year-old girl and adopted her as his own daughter. 16 years later, Sakurako has grown up to become a beautiful woman. Sakurako then has a fateful meeting with Takanashi Hiroto. Their pure love begin.
A young Korean man named Young Ho arrives in Japan to study. He wants to become a journalist, but now works as a paparazzi at a magazine publisher. Young Ho chases after a domestic violence story involving world famous conductor Yoshihiko Shintani and his wife Izumi. The wife then abandons everything to run away from her husband. Izumi flees to a village and lives with an old female painter named Yaeko Tenbo as a housekeeper. One day, Young-Ho and Izumi happen to meet again. When they meet, Young-Ho is being chased by the police. The light shines on Izumi when she hears Young-Ho say “I want to protect you.”
