为了给重病的女友真理子治病，佐仓春男竟然去杀人以换取800万日元，为此入狱。9年后佐仓出狱了，佐仓了解到女友去世前一直跟一个叫村上康史的男人在一起，于是费尽周折找到了他。佐仓认为村上开面包店的钱是自己当年给女友的救命钱，心中不满，屡次来面包店捣乱。佐仓在公园遇到了一个可爱的小学生村上幸，她正是村上康史的女儿，单纯善良的小幸让佐仓不免有些触动。在偶然间，佐仓得知小幸的母亲竟然就是真理子，通过小幸的出生年月佐仓意识到小幸就是自己的女儿。于是佐仓找到村上，两个男人拳脚相向，村上表示自己才是小幸的父亲，佐仓不配做小幸的父亲。为了小幸，佐仓春男在村上的面包店里工作。佐仓发觉当年自己卖命换来的钱被朋友私吞了，并没有交给真理子治病，不过佐仓没有再多追究。他离开面包店在小饭馆打工，有一天小幸找到了佐仓，问他是否是自己的亲生父亲，佐仓却劝小幸好好对村上。佐仓春男又回到了面包店工作，一个年轻人突然闯了进来，原来他是当年佐仓杀死的人的儿子，佐仓被对方报复，抢救无效去世了。

因謀殺而被判處9年徒刑的佐倉春男（阿部寬）刑滿釋放後，得到了前女友高村真理子（紺野真晝）因病去世的消息。於是開始追查當初為殺人從組織得到酬金的去向，原本那筆錢是為真理子治病的。在此期間，春男遇到了他和真理子的女兒村上さち（大橋望美）。

Former yakuza Haruo is finally released from prison after completing his sentence. With nine years worth of prison gratuities in hand, he stops at a restaurant to enjoy a good meal, but all of his money ends up being stolen. With nothing left, he spends the night at a net cafe, and he manages to look up his old friend from his yakuza days. When Haruo visits the next day, he learns that his old girlfriend Mariko was living with another man, but later died of illness. Haruo, who had committed murder 9 years earlier to earn the money for Mariko's medical treatment, is shocked and angered. He decides to track down that other man, who runs a bakery with his wife and daughter Sachi. Haruo later runs into Sachi at the park, but he has yet to find out the truth about her.

L'ancien yakuza Haruo est finalement libéré de prison après avoir purgé sa peine. Avec neuf ans de prison, il s'arrête dans un restaurant pour déguster un bon repas, mais tout son argent finit par lui être volé. Dépouiillé, il passe la nuit dans un net-café. Le lendemain, il apprend que son ancienne petite amie Mariko est morte de maladie. Il décide de retrouver l'homme qui vivait avec elle et qui tient une boulangerie avec sa femme et sa fille Sachi.

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