Atteint d'un cancer, Watanabe, chef de service du génie civil, décide de réaliser le projet qu'il avait tout d'abord repoussé : celui d'assainir un terrain vague du quartier de Hureocho pour que les enfants puissent jouer dans un véritable jardin.

Jack Barrett is the type of guy no one calls Jack. He works for a group of businessmen known as "The Gentlemen" who operate within the fertile realm of the Sydney Underworld. Standover tactics, prostitution, illegal gambling, creative importation - you name it, "The Gentlemen" are into it. And Barrett enforces it for them. Old school muscle for hire. Now 53 years old, he's tired of having to throw away perfectly good suits because you can't dry-clean the blood off. He needs to get out of Sydney. Out of the game. Which is, of course, easier said than done.

Jim Jansson is a woodcarver who gets retired.