Bel Canto begins with a man named Katsumi Hosokawa being invited to a birthday party that is being thrown for him. At the party, his favorite opera singer of all time comes and performs for his birthday. During the performance, terrorists take over the party with a goal to capture the president, but the president isn’t there. Eventually some of the hostages are let go because the terrorists are sick of being over crowded. The remaining hostages become fond of the terrorists and relationships begin forming. Roxane and Mr. Hosokawa, Gen and Carmen are both couples that start falling in love. After four months of being in captivity, the government raids the house and kills all of the terrorists. In the process of killing the terrorists the government
