A mysterious incident in the Tokyo Temple of the Goddess of Fortune at the end of the Second World War echoes today in tragedies. The sly and jealous celestial maiden Benten conducts her own game, manipulating ordinary mortals who can only watch how events unfold.
Old crimes of Japan’s wartime police are destroying people today—and an American journalist who has accidentally found himself at the center of a great secret will have to solve it before he himself becomes a victim of an obsessed fanatic, magical hallucinations, the revenge of narrow-minded Tokyo policemen, and the whirl of ultra-modern Tokyo—a city like a thoughtless slot machine, impossible to fully comprehend.