Kurozu-cho a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan is cursed According to Shuichi Saito the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern uzumaki the spiral the hypnotic secret shape of the world It manifests itself in everything from seashells & whirlpools in water to the spiral marks on people's bodies the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father & the voice from the cochlea in our inner ear As the madness spreads the inhabitants of Kurozu-cho are pulled ever deeper into a whirlpool from which there is no return!