Wallace, an illustrator of the press, former of Vietnam, saves a young girl from suicide. Their meeting quickly turns into an idyllic, alas of short duration, because the first kiss exchanged is stopped net by a shot. When he gets up, Esther has been taken away. Wallace now has a goal in life, finding Esther and saving her from her captors. Sin City the black one does not betray her sulphurous reputation. To the most terrible evils oppose a new hero to the big heart and pulpous girls. If this episode of Sin City is above all a love story, as well as the founding episode, it is also a new opportunity for Frank Miller to renew his art. To the shock of black and white and bichromy, Miller opposes a chapter "délisant" entirely put in color by Lynn Varley where we find all the fetic characters or heroes of his career, from Elektra to Clint Eastwood, passing through Hagar Dunor. It is also the longest episode of the series, with more than 300 pages of comic strips.