Despite the signing of the Paris Peace Accords and the withdrawal of 540000 US troops in 1973 the America government kept funding South Vietnamese forces and their war against North Vietnam and Viet Cong spread across the country Against this backdrop Japanese businessman Toshio Sugimoto Yusuke Kawazu enjoys a leisurely existence buying seafood in the relatively safe climate of Saigon After accidentally killing a Vietnamese his entire existence falls apart Suddenly stripped of all privileges from no 1 to no 10 as well as having to put order in his love affair with the beautiful club singer Lan Lan Tanh and falling into the Saigon underworld one mistake at a time Sugimoto goes into hiding But soon hiding isnt enough He must flee across a wartorn Vietnam taking his lover Lan and newfound ally Taro Kenji Isomura son of an exJapanese soldier and a Vietnamese woman along for the bumpy ride
