This film, Last Winter We Parted is based on a novel, Thanks for your wishes, Kimi and Watarase, published in 2013. The main character, Kyosuke Yakumo, is an investigation researcher and writer. He has a fiancee' and they plan to get marry very soon. When he begins his research on a burned death murder case involving a beautiful blind woman for his next book, he finds out that the suspect in the case is a photographer..