A woman named Aomame in 1984 Japan finds herself negotiating down a spiral staircase off an elevated highway. When she gets to the bottom, she can't help but feel that, all of a sudden, she's entered a new reality that's just slightly different from the one that she left, but very similar, but different.
Žena jménem Aomame se v Japonsku roku 1984 najednou ocitne na cestě dolů z točitého schodiště na vyvýšené dálnici. Když se dostane na konec, najednou pocítí, jak z ničeho nic vstoupila do nové reality, která je jen trošinku odlišná od té, kterou opustila. Velmi podobná, ale jiná.