Hong, who had just entered society not long ago, came to the remote island Asakawa, where the National Institute of Agricultural and Life Sciences was once located, in order to bury the ashes of her grandfather who died more than ten years ago. She accidentally discovered her grandfather's notebook in his old apartment in Asakawa, which aroused her interest in the past of her grandfather, whom she had only met a few times. At the same time, a young man who claimed to be writing a biography for her grandfather's student, a professor of the Academy of Sciences who retired not long ago, found her. Together, the two of them searched for clues of the past in Asakawa, trying to piece together the unknown and undisclosed past stories of this legendary pair of teachers and students. And just when the story seemed to have a vague outline, the retired academician took the initiative to find Hong...