Mitsuru Hirata

Celebrating his successful comeback as a teacher after being out of work for many years, Manabu goes to a sexual massage salon to treat himself on New Year's Eve; however, he has a subarachnoid haemorrhage and needs to go through brain surgery.

When a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hits the Pacific Ocean near Japan, workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility risk everything to manage a reactor leak.