Twenty-seven-year-old Detective Reiko Himekawa has an impressive ability to solve crimes. When a gruesomely slaughtered body wrapped in plastic is discovered, Reiko soon uncovers eleven other murders with a similar 'signature' and a reference to something called 'strawberry night', a group that recruits victims and murderers on the internet. To solve the case, Reiko is forced to reach back into her own troubled past.
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A severed hand is found in a van in the outskirts of Tokyo at the same time as contractor Kenichi Takaoka goes missing, leaving his garage covered in blood. Lieutenant Reiko Himekawa is on the case, and when the hand is identified as Takaoka's, she's investigating a murder. Reiko is plunged into a world of past sins, forced suicides, and the shadowy control of the yakuza. The rest of Takaoka's body is nowhere to be found. But when his childhood friend sees a photo of the missing man, he swears it is not Takaoka at all. . .