Kazami, joven estudiosa de literatura, investiga el misterio que rodea a un libro de cuentos titulado N.P. Su autor, Tekase, que escribia en ingles, paso gran parte de su vida en Estados unidos y se suicido a los cuarenta y ocho anos, dejando dos hijos. Cuando Kazami conoce a estos, detecta de inmediato una estela de locura en los ojos de esos hermanos tiernamente incestuosos. Pero otra muchacha obsesionada por ese mismo libro se cruzara en el camino de Kazami. / A Japanese writer has committed suicide, leaving behind stories written in English, N.P. A translator, Kazami, is drawn to three people whose lives are bound to the late writer and his work. Soon she will discover the truth behind the ninety-eighth story, and she will come to believe that everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful enough to make you crazy.

Years after their separation, two Japanese childhood sweethearts are reunited, and happily married Hajime finds himself prepared to risk everything for the chance to be with his now mysterious first love, Shimamoto.