Hiiragi Yuki has often been confined to her bedroom watching movies since she was a child. When she enters the film section of Asagaya Artistic High School, she has no ambition and a poor self-esteem; movies are simply the only thing she knows. But her encounter with a cranky teacher and little-known director called Kuroyama Sumiji might change her vision…

Published in the Shounen Jump in January 2017, this story is a prequel of sorts to Act-age, set 5 years before the series.