After losing the ability to speak due to stress in his business consulting company, Doi had no choice but to be placed on medical leave, but no therapy or medication ever helped.

Just as he thought his professional life was over, he walked by accident into an empty soba shop... where he found healing, the worst soba he had ever tasted, and the most handsome man he had ever seen in the face of Anri Masato, the owner.

But who is Anri Masato, really, and what kinds of secrets does he keep? And why does his soba taste so awful!?