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Ben lands in Tokyo with a backpack, a month, and not a word of Japanese. From a small family inn in the old part of the city to Kyoto and the sea at Kamakura, each lesson is a scene from his trip: the people he meets, and what he has to say to them.

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Ben didn't get on the airport train. He stays in Tokyo, finds a job at an English school and a flat of his own, and builds a life: colleagues, neighbours, a typhoon, a hot spring, and Yui. His first months of living in Japanese, from summer to the New Year.

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Ben's second year in Japan, from New Year in Kyoto to the summer fireworks at Kamakura. His parents visit, the two families meet, Yui is offered a job in Tokyo, and Ben sits his first Japanese exam. A year of big decisions, in Japanese.

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After two years, Kenta tells Ben that friends don't talk to each other in desu and masu. Ben's third autumn and winter in Japan, in the plain Japanese of friends and family: futsal, a night shift, the Hanaya in trouble, New Year's Eve, and a ring.

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The months between the proposal and the wedding. Sota moves to Tokyo, Ben becomes head teacher and sits N3, the families meet again, and in November, Ben and Yui are married at a shrine in Kyoto. Then a honeymoon in Okinawa.

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