Looking to leave Kansas for a change of pace and to explore life, Tom Kellerman makes the same move as thousands of others, and travels abroad to teach English in Japan. Once there, he signs a one-year contract at the Be Yes! School of English. As an inexperienced teacher, the job of teaching English as a second language to his students is an arduous one, compounded by his love life and the struggling eikawa. Tom wants to provide quality lessons to his students, but in the end it may be the school that provides lessons in life for him.
