A one-eyed ronin with nothing left to lose, an orc trying to stop being a killer, an elf girl caught between worlds. That's the entire story, and it doesn't need to be more. The 3D animation moves like watercolor bleeding into old anime cells, which shouldn't work but does, and the fights feel like watching someone remember how to live frame by frame. This is a 50-minute reminder that you don't need a complex plot to make something real, just three people who have nowhere else to go.

As Japan moves from the end of the Shogunate into the Meiji era, a bright light from a wand brings the long Shogunate period to a close to spare further bloodshed. Izou, a one-eyed wandering ronin who has lost his reason to live, and Raiden, an orc who hates killing and wants to give up thieving, each cross paths with Sonya, a young elf girl, at around the same time. Together they set out along the Tokaido road to carry her and the wand she holds to the elves' homeland in the north. Opposing them is Inferni, a mysterious group that wants the wand in order to bring back the Dark Lord, who seeks to rule all of creation. Inferni even turns the new Meiji government against the travelers. The result is an action fantasy adventure set in a Japan where humans, orcs and elves coexist.