Once contented, Shizuo Oguro can't shake off the nagging feeling that his life misses something. So, at forty, he quits his monotone job as a salary man to follow his lifelong dream of becoming a manga artist. The whole family is now hostage to this pursuit. Shizuo spends his days engrossed in video games while his teenage daughter and elderly father pick up the slack. Will he blossom and create an exceptional manga or flop and just be another idle drop-out?