The best-selling "The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl" novel is a story set in Kyoto about a “Senpai” who has a crush on “The Girl with Black Hair”, his junior, and depicts how he gets caught up in various incidents by trying to draw her attention. Adopting the novel for this theatre play, Makoto Ueda, representative of popular theatre company "Europe Kikaku" based mainly in Kyoto, is leading as scriptwriter and director.