In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group called the Guillotine Society, spark an unlikely connection.
Toko Amano worked as a detective, but to take care of her sick husband she quit her job. After her husband passed away, Toko Amano now works as a crisis management expert. 3 days ago, Toko Amano's former mother-in-law rode on an express train with beds. She witnessed a man strangling a woman and told the train conductor, but he thought she imagined it. The police later searched for the woman's body, but could not find her. Toko Amano boards the same express train that her former mother-in-law rode. She looks for the dead body.
In order to repay the debts of her beloved husband, Mariko requests a loan from her former classmate Anzai who has become a successful entrepreneur. In return, she agrees to live with him for three months. She learns of his loneliness, and her attraction to him grows.
Hojo (played by Hakuryu), a strategist known as a cunning yakuza, serves as the assistant head of the Mikawa Group, an organization based in Kansai. The Mikawa Group is currently moving to invade the Kanto region with the backing of the Owada Group, which controls Yokohama. However, the head of the Owada Group is shot and killed by the Ryujinkai, a rival group that has been at odds with the Owada Group. Hojo, using his subordinate Iwabuchi (played by Yamaguchi Yoshiyuki), begins his strategy to take down the Ryujinkai...
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