Imagine a country that was closed to the outside world for centuries? This is how life was in Japan 160 years ago. Whilst a claustrophobic population ripples with unrest, can the Tokugawa Shogunate's tight grip over a nation possibly be unravelled by small group of individuals? Fact and fiction are combined in this story of how passionate ambition sparked the end of an empire.
Leading Geisha and unofficial Yakuza assassin, Kimi, is missing, in the wake of her lover’s murder, leaving Corrupt Government official Osamu primed to infiltrate the Government with his Yakuza army and worryingly for Kimi’s sisters: control Gion. Meanwhile in a small village, a girl is found floating in the river.
