In 1996, the three are in ninth grade, their last year of middle school, and they are fascinated by the Hokkaido Tower visible across the Tsugaru Strait to the north.
1996 går de tre i åttonde klass, deras sista år i mellanskolan, och de fascineras dagligen av tornet på Hokkaido som syns över Tsugaru Kaikyō i norr.