Ichiro and Sachiko hope for something better, but they're no revolutionaries: their spare time is spent drinking, smoking, daydreaming, and sprawling between the sheets. Red Colored Elegy charts the heartache, passion, and squabbles of a young artist couple struggling to make ends meet. Drawing upon the French New Wave, legendary Garo cartoonist Seiichi Hayashi upends the manga norms of the day by creating a revelatory portrait of a stormy love affair in a visionary avant-garde style.