A USSR detective - and a good one, too. Due to a disastrous mistake in his career that involved the death of a young civilian, his public image was tarnished in his home country. To keep him busy while the storm blows over, his superior transferred him to work side-by-side with Soviet Russia's closest ally: Japan.
A foreigner in a strange new land, Vassa begrudgingly works with the local policemen to both solve crime and intercept any coup attempts against the current ruling party - the Nihon Shakai Tou, also known as the Japan Socialist Party.
This spunky 6-year-old girl suddenly appeared one day while Vassa was working on a case. He quickly finds out that he's the only one capable of seeing her. Is she a ghost? A mental manifestation of his trauma?
Either way, she is able to help him visualize things that would otherwise be impossible. After all, she's only in his head!
The poster child of the Japan Socialist Party’s Inclusion Initiative, Hana is a Japanese policewoman who has been assigned to Vassa’s force. She struggles with the thought that she may have been assigned not through her own merit, but instead as a symbol of the regime.