Sparks of Tomorrow

Synopsis

The story is set in the summer of 1907, the 40th year of the Meiji era. Fifteen-year-old Inako Momokawa, the second daughter of a sake brewer, lives in Kyoto's Fushimi district. Nothing she does ever turns out right, and she gets scolded by her father daily. Her only solace is the faith she puts in her prayers to the gods. One day at Fushimi Inari shrine, she encounters a carefree young man named Kihachi Sakamoto. He dismisses the gods and boasts about the coming age of electricity. Suddenly, marriage becomes a topic in Inako's household. Her father unilaterally decides everything for her, and Inako is on the verge of losing hope. At that moment, Kihachi draws out Inako's true desire to flee her family. The sole way to stop her marriage is to find an unusual book known as the "Electricity Catalog." This book is a prediction about electricity that Kihachi wrote as a child, but his older brother Seiroku took it, and its present location is unknown. Together, Inako and Kihachi search for the book across Kyoto and Shiga prefectures.