Takamizawa Hiroshi cannot forget his girlfriend who disappeared all of a sudden and has been searching for her. At this time, a wealthy elderly man who lives alone in Akabane, Tokyo, is found strangled to death. Detectives Imuro Shinji and Nishimura Atsuko of Akabane Police Precinct and Torikai Tatsuya from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s First Investigative Division team up for the investigation. Yamamoto Miki, a woman who runs her own housekeeping agency and occasionally goes in and out of the victim’s residence, emerges in the line of investigation based on eyewitness statements from the neighbours. But the detectives they rush to her house, they miss her by seconds because she has been taken into custody by the Saitama Prefectural Police. Hiroshi happens to be there at the scene but the girlfriend he has finally found is taken to the police. Meanwhile, Imuro and the others discover that there have been several other suspicious deaths at Miki’s place of work. The mass media goes into overdrive over the serial killings. Together with the lawyer Yatabe Tamotsu, Hiroshi scramble about in a quest for the truth. Everyone has their own ideas about Miki’s character. When she is about to be exposed in court, she suddenly clams up on the witness stand and the case starts to go off course … … Who exactly is she and what is the truth? |