Hiroshima Police detective Ogami Shogo and his partner Hioka Shuichi are investigating the disappearance of a company’s employees amidst an escalating yakuza turf war in 1988. Blood, shooting and death is everywhere. At the same time, there is a suspicion that the former man has his own ties to the thugs. Certainly many of his methods and actions are thuggish, violent and should be illegal.