Akutsu, an elderly inmate serving life in prison, is on the verge of a lonely death in his solitary cell. The voice mocking him belongs to a balsam flower with an uncanny ability to talk.
Through their ‘conversation,’ Akutsu begins to reflect on his past and the summer of 1987…
In a town by the sea, down-and-out yakuza Akutsu moves into a shabby apartment found for him by his sworn “”brother””, Tsutsumi. Out in the yard, a balsam flower grows. Akutsu shares his new home with Nana, a woman six years his junior, and her newborn son Kensuke.
The three of them live happily, until Akutsu suddenly finds himself in need of a huge sum of money. This leads him to join Tsutsumi in an attempt to rob their own organization’s safe of 300 million yen…