For one hour a day, time stops. And two people meet. For a young girl with a fatal disease, that hour means freedom. Experience the miracle of young love and perseverance. Koji Aiba is a college entrance exam cram student who one day notices that the whole world has stopped moving: people, things, cars, everything suspended motionless! Has time stopped? He checks the clock. 12:15 in the afternoon. He leaps out of his chair and rushes outside to see a world deadened in its tracks. It is then that he spots a high school girl who, like him, is not frozen. She is Tokine Shinomiya, and from that day forward, the two meet for one strange and joyous hour which they come to call "stoppage time." Koji, who lost his mother when young, lacks a zest for life and he quickly gives up on things. Tokine, by example, teaches him to say yes to life and to never give up. Soon, he has fallen for her and asks if she'll see him even outside of their "stoppage time." But Tokine surprises him, declaring, "I can't see you anymore." Tokine suffers from Wilson disease, and is normally confined to a hospital bed. Only during the stoppage time is she free to wander outside and savor the world. Koji becomes obsessed with saving her with the help of Tokine's physician, Dr. Kazuki Asami, who also once experienced stoppage time and became an organ donor for the woman he loved. Dr. Asami Knowing what Tokine and Koji are experiencing, Dr. Asami endeavors to help the young couple in this heartwarming romance about perseverance and the miraculous nature of love.
