From the moment best selling Japanese novelist Hiraku Makimura lands in Sydney to speak at a writers' seminar, there is an identity mix-up; a body surfaces in the boot of a Subaru without a rational explanation; the hotel receptionist is a distraction but no help when the Police investigate. And when a more mature woman with her own literary agenda instigates a cruise on Sydney Harbour the Japanese visitor experiences an improbable rendezvous with...