Novel ini berkisah tentang nostalgia, kehilangan, dan meningkatnya seksualitas. Diceritakan dari sudut pandang orang pertama yaitu Toru Watanabe, yang mengingat kembali masa-masa mudanya sebagai mahasiswa di Tokyo. Melalui kenang-kenangan Watanabe, pembaca melihat dia mengembangkan hubungan dengan dua wanita yang sangat berbeda — Naoko cantik namun bermasalah secara emosional, dan Midori ceri…
I am a woman of no language. I was fed the words my mother ate. And then I was told these sentences were not adequate. I was taught to speak other than my mother’s tongue. That my mother’s words only matter to use when I was young. Through the course of four chapters, First Drop of Red speaks about history and identity, existence and survival, love and lust, as well as faith and doubts. It …