Drawing from the anime series and Akira Kurosawa's classic film, a small village suffers persecution from robbers who return with each harvest to seize the crops. Confronted with starvation, the villagers launch a mission to locate and recruit samurai for their defense. Offering only rice as payment and aware that only destitute samurai would accept such a deal, the villagers can only hope their saviors arrive before the rice is ready for harvest.