In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.

马缔光也（樱井孝宏 配音）是一位性格非常内向的年轻人，总是无法很好的通过语言来传达自己的想法。可是这样的他偏偏进入了公司的第1营业部，每天的工作都让光也感到压力非常巨大。一天，光也意外的在大街上遇见了名为西冈正志（神谷浩史 配音）的男子，这个看似轻浮又油嘴滑舌的男人，竟然是辞典编辑部的一员。 正志在光也的身上发现了校编辞典的天赋，于是邀请他加入编辑部，开始了对于辞典《大渡海》的校编，光也就此结识了对文字爱得深沉的荒木公平（金尾哲夫 配音）、将自己的一生都投注到了辞海中去的松本朋佑（麦人 配音）以及性格非常努力务实的佐佐木薰（榊原良子 配音）。

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

Some 20 years after that loss, the United States and much of the world has now been split between Japan and Germany, the major hegemonic states. But the tension between these two powers is mounting, and this stress is playing out in the western U.S.