With this haunting function of journalistic investigation, Haruki Murakami tells the storyplot of the horrific terrorist assault on Japanese soil that shook the whole planet.

On a obvious spring time in 1995, five associates of a spiritual cult unleashed poison gas on the Tokyo subway system. In try to discover why, Haruki Murakmi foretells the people who lived through the catastrophe, and by doing this lays bare japan psyche. As he discerns the fundamental issues that led to the strike, Murakami paints an obvious vision of an event that could take place anytime, anywhere.