Ichiban Kasuga, jeune recrue d'une famille de yakuzas modeste basée à Tokyo, accepte de passer 18 ans en prison pour un meurtre qu'il n'a pas commis. Il purge sa peine sans jamais perdre foi en son cercle, mais découvre à sa sortie que personne ne l'attendait et que le clan a été anéanti par l'homme qu'il admirait le plus au monde.
She gave my mother such a turn, that I have always been convinced I am indebted to Miss Betsey for having been born on a Friday. The word was appropriate to the moment. My mother was so much worse that Peggotty, coming in with the teaboard and candles, and seeing at a glance how ill she was, - as Miss Betsey might have done sooner if there had been light enough, - conveyed her upstairs to her own room with all speed; and immediately dispatched Ham Peggotty, her nephew, who had been for some days past secreted in the house, unknown to my mother, as a special messenger in case of emergency, to fetch the nurse and doctor.