Set in the near future, the story centers around a family of vicious gangsters who live within an area of Japan not governed by laws called Bangaichi. Kikunosuke Abashiri (Erica Tonooka) is now attending Paradise Academy, but has lost all memory of her past other than occasional dreams of happy times with her father Daemon (Shun Sugata) and three brothers. But are they all just a figment of her imagination?

Despite his precarious health, wrecked by decades of doping, Art Pepper was performing and recording at a furious pace during his last seven years, trying to make up for lost time. There is a tremendous amount of material already issued from those years -- and since this initial release from Laurie Pepper's label Widow's Taste is designated Vol. 1, there must be much more on the shelf.