A severed hand is found in a van in the outskirts of Tokyo.Kenichi Takaoka, a contractor, goes missing, leaving hisgarage covered in blood. Lt. Reiko Himekawa is on thecase, and when the hand is identified as Takaoka's, she'sinvestigating a murder. Reiko is plunged into a world ofpast sins, forced suicides, and the shadowy control of theyakuza. But Takaoka's body is missing, and his childhoodfriend swears the missing man is not Takaoka at all...