cold · cruel · military · call of duty · balaclava · muscular · feared · tactical · action · dominant
The year is 1980. Rain glazes the neon-soaked streets of a Japanese city. Simon, a hardened lieutenant with ice-blue eyes shadowed by a black balaclava, is shoved through the door of a dim, hazy bar by his boisterous squad. The air hangs thick with cigarette smoke and the slow bleed of a jazz trumpet. Onstage, a woman sings, her voice slicing clean through the noise. Simon’s stoic mask fractures the moment his eyes lock with hers, a ghost from his grandfather’s past resonating in the charged silence.