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Ethnically Korean Japanese-born filmmaker Yoichi Sai spins this black comedy about a clan of con artists. The family matriarch is Matsu (Moeko Ezawa), a middle-aged dynamo who bore four children from four different men. The only person in the group she trusts with business matters, including her current husband (Ittoku Kishibe), is her second-born, Minoru (Goro Kishitani). Though he is the bright one -- he tends to think up most of the cons -- and the most charismatic, Minoru is having second thoughts about the vicissitudes of grifting life. The film opens with the clan bolting to Tokyo after an election-betting scheme goes sour. There, by looking up the family of a one-night stand, Minoru quickly secures a rent-free place to live. After spinning an elaborate lie, Minoru soon has the elderly couple calling him son and letting him and his younger half-Japanese brother, Jun (Dave Kureiken), stay in the room above their barber shop. Not long afterwards, the rest of the brood move in and soon they completely take over the building. The rest of the film concerns each member of the clan trying to out-do the next with get-rich-quick schemes. The eldest son, Takashi (Shigeru Nakano), and his wife, Nobuko (Hitomi Ishii), entice potent clients for a faux celebrity sperm bank, Susumu (Kazuya Takahashi) occupies himself with marriage fraud, Minoru sells a phony condo to the owner of a gay bar, and Jun peddles pedarastic pleasures to a lecherous (and gullible) middle-aged salaryman.