A former samurai pulling a rickshaw through Tokyo discovers the old world never really ended, just went underground. Seven years after the samurai era collapsed, Shizuma is still looking for his missing fiancée when a conspiracy to burn down the entire Meiji government forces him to choose between the woman he lost and the country he's building. The plot demands you actually pay attention, but that rigor is the point: this is a show that respects your intelligence enough to hide its best reveals in plain sight, the way a real conspiracy would, and watching the pieces click together across ten episodes hits different than shows that spell everything out.

Japan's samurai era has faded into history, leaving Shizuma Orikasa adrift in a modernizing Tokyo. Once a renowned samurai of the Aizu Domain, he now pulls rickshaws through the streets while searching for his fiancée. Sumie vanished during the Boshin War, and her brother Gennosuke, Shizuma's close friend, trusted him with her safety as he died. When Shizuma foils an assassination plot, the newly formed police force hires him, and he treats the post as a way to press on with his hunt for Sumie. Soon he is caught up in political intrigue involving government loyalists, stubborn rebels, scheming courtesans, meddling foreigners and an enigmatic yakuza named Kyoushirou Shuragami, as dark forces work to bring down the government. Action, drama and mystery combine across ten episodes.