A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange characters. He finds a job skewering meat in a dirty old room in a shabby old house filled with prostitutes, gangsters and a weird old tattoo master. He clearly doesn't fit in to this new world, and the inhabitants of it immediately despise him.
Yuka is staying at hotel Seaside in a Japanese resort. She is alone and bored, so she gets something going with the night porter.
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.
An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.
