On his first day of transferring to a new high school, a loner named Mori Buntarou is cajoled by a classmate into climbing the school building. Despite knowing that one misstep could send him spiraling to his...

Japan, 1995. After graduating from high school, Itou Kaiji moves to Tokyo to get a job but fails to find steady employment because the country is mired in its first recession since World War II. Depressed, he...