Akihito Takaba, a twenty-three-year-old freelance photographer chasing a career-making scoop, photographs crime lord Ryuichi Asami's dealings and is abducted for it, which drags him into a charged and dangerous entanglement with the man he tried to expose. As the two keep circling each other, the Hong Kong boss Fei Long, who blames Asami for his father's death, sets his sights on Takaba as leverage for revenge.