Gabriel Silk’s family are the keepers of a magical cloak, handed down the generations. When Gabriel's father is called away,
...It is 1862 & Japan is a land in chaos as the power of the Shogun wanes. In Yokohama, the gai-jin, the hated foreigners, seek to profit from the chaos. At the head of the Noble House stands Malcolm Struan, who is determined to become his own man. At the head of the Shogunate party is the Lord Yoshi, a direct descendant of Shogun Toranaga.