This is a novel-parable about a person’s meeting with his true self, which is in a deep, indissoluble relationship with the world around him. At the center of the story is Shozo Sakai, a successful employee of a large construction company, proud of the knowledge of his involvement in the transformation of war-torn Tokyo into an ultra-modern metropolis. But one fine day, mysterious events begin to happen to the main character, radically changing his measured and seemingly quite successful life... The action of the novel balances on a fine line between reality and illusion, encouraging the reader to break out of the captivity of self-evidence and be transported into a multidimensional, unpredictable a world where everything: people, things, landscapes bears the stamp of exciting mystery.