She should have forgotten him that night. Two souls shrouded in darkness, lighting each other's cigarettes in a dim alley—it was nothing more than a fleeting moment of purity in their numb lives. Yet fate and murder brought them together again, binding them in an inescapable entanglement for the rest of their days. A rose from the gutter climbed upward, while a bird from the tower kept falling. Are you my silent, tender lover? Or a cold-blooded killer? Are you my wild, blooming rose? Or a reckless madman? In this rotten, hopeless world, will they find redemption—or cling to each other in desperate passion aboard a sinking ship?