Hajime lives the way millions of Japanese do: in orderly circumstances, successful in business. He runs a jazz club in an upscale neighborhood of Tokyo, is married, and has two daughters. Then one evening Shimamoto walks up to the bar — his first love, the girl with whom he once lost himself entirely in the world of music. Like a hallucination, she appears only on rainy evenings, shrouded in mystery, and with her enchanting smile she stirs strings in Hajime that he thought were lost forever. Slo...
