A man has been found dead in the courtyard of a block of apartment buildings. Everything about the "murder scene" is wrong: his clothes don't fit, he's been stabbed in the chest, but there's no blood at the scene, and he has no ID. Det. Ishikawa "goes fuzzy" and sees that the dead man's face is very different and asks the pathologist to check carefully. He's had plastic surgery! The apartment residents are on edge and the manager is eerily very helpful and unshaken by the murder. The dead man has/had a secret, as do others, which will complicate this case in unexpected ways.