Spring Creek is just a foreign pony who runs the small noodle shop in Ponyville. However, nopony knows how he came to Equestria, a fact which hides a deep and painful past from the faraway land of Neighpon.

But today, as he reveals that past to his long-time friend and business partner Bamboo Leaf, he also confesses deeper feelings for her, and finds the one thing that he had always sought for for twenty years - hope.