A woman named Aomame in 1984 Japan finds herself negotiating down a spiral staircase off an elevated highway. When she gets to the bottom, she can't help but feel that, all of a sudden, she's entered a new reality that's just slightly different from the one that she left, but very similar, but different.
En kvinde kaldet Aomame i 1984 i Japan finder sig selv på vej ned ad en spiraltrappe fra en hævet motorvej. Da hun når bunden, kan hun ikke lade være at føle, at pludselig er hun i en ny virkelighed, der bare er lidt anderledes fra den hun forlod, men meget lig, men anderledes.