rina sawayama was born in niigata in 1990, she later moved to tokyo and then to london when she was four years old due to her father's job transfer. after attending a japanese school in north london, she studied political science at cambridge university. however, rina sawayama is bullied and driven to the brink of depression on campus, where the old ways of white family society still exist and discrimination and prejudice against students from asian and western countries still persist. at that time, she met the lgbtq community on campus and was saved by the members of the group.