Boys Over Flowers follows the adventure of Tsukushi Makino, a middle-class girl from the wrong side of the track who enters the Eitoku Academy, an elite school for children of the rich and materialistic. Her one wish is to pass the two years she has left in high school quietly and unnoticed. The student body is dominated by the most powerful sons of Japan, Sojirou Nishikado, Akira Mimakasa, Rui Hanazawa and their volatile leader Tsukasa Domyouji. Collectively they call themselves the F4 or the Flowery Four. Tsukushi is smitten with one of the quartet - Rui, a languid violinist who's alternately kind and aloof. However she attracts the attention of Tsukasa, the leader of the clique. Within 10 minutes, Tsukushi brings herself to the attention of the F4 by standing up to them while they bully her friend. Unable to standby and watch as the rich and powerful flaunt and mock those of lower status, Tsukushi insults the F4 in front of the student body. Only after she has opened her mouth and finished her insults, the realization of what she had done sinks in, and the battle begins.