Yatora is the ideal high school student, boasting good grades and a large circle of friends. It is an effortless performance, and, ultimately... a dull one. But one day, he wanders into the art room, and a solitary painting catches his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty he never knew. Compelled and consumed, he dives in headfirst—and he is about to learn how savage and unforgiving art can be!