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In 1997, after the collapse of the bubble economy, Japan's financial sector fell into crisis. Banks were on the brink of survival due to massive non-performing loans. Against this backdrop, one of the major urban banks, Mitsuwa Bank, began implementing "bulk transfers," where difficult-to-recover non-performing loans were bundled and sold to investment companies. Kenichi Shibano (played by Atsuro Watabe), the head of Mitsuwa Bank's Asset Liquidation Development Department, was in charge of this first attempt in Japan. He met with the representative of the foreign investment company "Horizon Japan Partners," Masahiko Tsuru (played by Go Ayano), to discuss the transfer of the loans. Shibano proposed that the loans, valued at 723.6458 billion yen, should be acquired for a minimum of 300 billion yen. Tsuru assured him that they would conduct a thorough evaluation, but this response made Shibano feel a slight unease. Apart from Shibano, everyone at Mitsuwa Bank was eagerly anticipating the evaluation results. However, four weeks later, when the response arrived, Shibano and his colleagues were shocked by the price quoted by Tsuru. Mitsuwa Bank's executive director, Ryoichi Iijima (played by Kaoru Kobayashi), was infuriated by the "vulture" tactics of the foreign company. He volunteered to personally oversee the second bulk transfer. Faced with Iijima's declaration, "I only work for Mitsuwa," Shibano...? On the other hand, Tsuru was subjected to angry accusations from debtors whose debts he had acquired through bulk transfers. Present at the scene was Matsui Takako (played by Erika Sawajiri), the former concierge manager of the "Tokyo Century Crown Hotel," who witnessed the incident...