Takakura (Hidetoshi Nishijima), a former detective of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Section, changed his profession after an accident and became a professor of criminal psychology at a university. Not long ago, he and his wife Yasuko (played by Takeuchi Yuko) moved to a new home. However, the neighbors around the new home seem too indifferent, especially the man named Nishino (played by Kagawa Teruyuki)...