1982. Tomoi Hisatsugu traveled to New York to work as a doctor. But that is not all. He hopes to lead an easier life as a young homosexual than in Japan. Indeed, he meets another doctor, Richard Stein, and they become lovers. Nemureru Mori no Binan tells of their relationship in an extremely realistic way. It portrays the life of homosexuals in the early '80s very exactly and conveys the mood of the secrecy gays and lesbians had to live in well.