Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya), Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), and the Yamazaki family arrive in the northern land of Hokkaido. Before their arrival, Shimotsuka (Shinya Owada), the chairman of Shimotsuka Foods, had come to the Yamazaki family chairman Kawatani (Hitoshi Ozawa) in Kobe to consult about Hokkaido branch manager, Nishino (Takaaki Ito), who has been shot by an unknown assailant.