Benjamin, 42, author of comics, goes in search of an unknown Asian woman with whom he shared, seventeen years ago, a night of his life. His quest leads him to Michihiko, a café boss with a very little talent for coffee, but very nice personality, with whom he soon enters into a friendly relationship.

Two Espressos is a manga which was drawn by the request from a French publisher Casterman, as such, the reading style is from left to right.