Sanae Umeki
The body of Shinsuke Maeda, a wealthy older man, is discovered in his garden. While at first glance it appears that he missed his step while exiting into the garden and hit his forehead on a flowerbed rock, it is established that a safe installed in the living room has been emptied. It seems that, the night before, Maeda left the hospital he was staying at of his own will and came home, and was robbed immediately after returning. His daughter Yumie Nagano insists that Chikako Inui, a woman her father had been seeing, must be the perpetrator. She says that Maeda was thinking of getting married to Chikako soon. However, Chikako finds Yumie and her husband suspicious. Troubled by debts incurred by opening their ramen store, they pestered Maeda and he pushed them away. She calmly points out that Maeda gave her a will in which he left all of the 50 million plus yen hidden in the safe to her, so she had no reason to steal from him.
종업식 날, 도쿄의 한 중학교 1학년 2반 남학생이 모두 사라졌다. 아이들은 빈 공장에 모여 어른 출입 금지 구역인 ‘해방구’를 만들어 공부와 규칙, 부모님과 선생님들의 잔소리에서 벗어나 아이들만의 자유로운 세상을 만든 것. 해방구를 없애려고 혈안이 되어 있는 어른들은 온갖 회유와 협박으로 공격하지만 아이들은 해방구 밖에 있는 여학생들과 협동 작전을 벌이고 기상천외한 아이디어로 어른들을 가볍게 물리친다. 과연 이들은 해방구를 끝까지 사수할 수 있을까?
