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After falling pregnant to Perth, her boyfriend's best friend, Ice commits suicide. She returns to haunt Perth while Tan seeks out the person who made her kill herself for his own revenge.

Though ethnically and culturally identical to the average Japanese, the burakumin have been an underclass in Japanese society since the 17th century when the shogunate government codified social hierarchies. The burakumin were the class on the bottom rung. They were herded into separate villages, and forced to work in such lowly vocations as slaughtering animals and tanning hides. In 1922, Zenkoku Suiheisha (National Levelers Association) organized and started fighting for burakumin civil rights.

Based upon a real case under the reign of King Rama II of Thailand, Muen and Rid are passionately in love. However, Muen's father has promised his daughter to another man. Unable to accept this arranged marriage, Muen brings this matter to court, hoping that she will be able to marry Rid, her true love.

One might easily see how Fanis’ life has been closely connected to Death. He works for a Funeral Home, his business partner is quite a ghostly type of person with the nickname “The Grim Reaper” and in Fanis’ personal life, his hopes for happiness are slowly being strangled by an unhappy marriage without children. His sexual frustration drives him to desperate flirting, violent behavior and, finally, murder. Sitting on a roof edge at the top of a deserted building, he thinks back on his life, where everything seemed to be “in order, but…”