Tatsuya Ichihashi kills a British woman who taught English in Japan. Ichihashi escapes the police dragnet to Aomori, 550 kilometres away. Learning that he is wanted by the law, he cuts his own lips to change his features. Burdened by guilt, he continues to avoid the law enforcement. He travels 1000 kilometres to Shikoku to participate in a pilgrimage in hope of resurrecting his murder victim. Obviously it fails and he remains a fugitive. As if to escape his own guilt he changes his identity and has cosmetic surgery to further alter his features. He works at construction sites and when people get suspicious of him he flees to a far-off island in Okinawa where he relies on survival skills.

2007年3月26日。千葉県市川市のマンションから、ひとりの若い男が捜査員の追跡を振りきって逃走した。部屋のベランダに置かれたバスタブからは、行方不明になっていたイギリス人女性英会話講師の変死体が発見される。これが日本を震撼させた殺人犯・市橋達也の、２年７ヶ月に及ぶ逃亡生活の始まりだった。青森、四国、沖縄、名古屋、大阪、福岡。行く先々で名前を変え、顔を変え、自らが犯した許され難い罪から逃げ続けた2年7ヵ月。謎に包まれていた空白の逃亡期間の真実が、映像で解き明かされる。