Camilla is a lawyer and a mother to a teenage daughter. Her life turns upside down one night when she gets involved in a car accident. She starts her own investigation that will take her far away from the places she's familiar with.
The 1973 novel was written by Kobo Abe and follows a nameless man who gives up his identity to live with a large cardboard box over his head, encountering a range of characters as he wanders the streets of Tokyo。