An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro but what connects him to a jazz buff in Tokyo? A woman on a holy mountain talks to a tree
- & the tree talks back
- unaware of the effect the financial irregularities of a burnt-out lawyer will have on her life. Add to this
- a Mongolian gangster a redundant English spy in Petersburg with a knack for forging masterpieces a despondent zookeeper a nuclear scientist a ghostwriter a ghost & a late night New York DJ whose hard-boiled scepticism has been his undoing. All of them have tales to tell & all must play their part as they are caught up in the inescapable forces of cause & effect.