1989年，正值日本的昭和64年，不过这一年份并未持续太久，随着天皇的去世，短暂的昭和64年匆匆落下帷幕。而就在这有限的七天内，某地发生一起幼女绑架案。绑匪索取两千万日元巨额赎金，并与受害者家属和办案人员展开巧妙周旋。虽然受害者的父亲（永濑正敏 饰）按照约定缴纳赎金，但 绑匪还是残忍地将女孩杀害。由于日本上下正处在新旧时代交替的关键时刻，代号为“64”的案件并未引起太多人的关注，即使十多年后，这桩悬而未决的案件依然是许多办案人员难以忘怀的心结。当年作为办案人员的三上义信（佐藤浩市 饰）而今正在群马县警署担任宣传官，终日周旋于上级和媒体中间。“64”的最后时效越来越近，人们仿佛又重新记起了这桩谜一般的案件…… 　　本片根据横山秀夫的同名推理小说改编。1989 is the 64 Shouwa year in the Japanese calendar, thus the unsolved girl kidnapping-murder case is called "64(rokuyon)" that got up in this year in Criminal Investigation Department in the Prefectural Police Department. And 14 years were over as the prefecture's police to be unsolved greatest stain, and statute of limitations approached it. In 2002, Yoshinobu Mikami, an ex-detective who was assigned as the investigator of the "Rokuyon" case 14years ago, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department against his will. As a newly assigned Public Relations Officer, he was troubled with the relation between the reporters, new case has occurred. And that new case traced "Rokuyon" case exactly.