When two children are found murdered, an eighteen-year-old high school student becomes the prime suspect, and the case quickly becomes a media sensation. As both the press and an angry public descend on the home of the accused, the family finds themselves at the mercy of strangers. Takumi Katsuyoshi is a veteran police detective who is assigned to look after Saori, the fifteen-year-old sister of the accused. While he initially regards the assignment as frivolous, it isn't long before he sees what kind of toll the attention has taken on the family. Katsuyoshi feels Saori is no longer safe in Tokyo, and takes her to the countryside, but they soon discover the news has followed them, and nowhere is safe from the prying eyes of the tabloid press and the people who read it.