Tesshu Yamaoka and Kyunosuke Masumitsu, messengers sent to deliver a secret letter to form an alliance with the emperor, are halted by Sotetsu Ibaragi on their way to Sunpu Castle. A sudden earthquake caused this letter to be undelivered, thus a stalemate to an era. The Yokohama Foreign Merchant Area opened up to the world in a time of economic expansion in 1853, in which the Japanese lived in the west and the foreigners lived in the east...