Nelli, the icy, introverted farm girl, needs to find a husband following her father's death. She accepts the attentions of the noisy Takaró Sanyi, although she is more attracted to his silent and modest younger brother.

On a space research station experimenting with relative time, a technical glitch causes two astronauts to be trapped in time. A dramatic struggle begins against runaway time, where the laws of physics are different and everything is noticeably slower than on Earth.