Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of defusing a hostage crisis in the Nagano vacation town of Karuizawa in 1972. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa had to compete with freezing winter temperatures, conflicting opinions between the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Nagano Prefectural Police, as well as public opinion to gain entrance to the lodge that held the single woman captive.