A short, sleek novel of encounters set in the witching hours of Tokyo between midnight and dawn, and is every bit gripping. At its center are two sisters: Yuri, a fashion model sleeping her way into oblivion; and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Denny's into lives radically alien to her own: those of a jazz trombonist who claims they've met before; a burly female 'love hotel' manager and her maidstaff; and a Chinese prostitute savagely brutalized by a businessman. These 'night people' are haunted by secrets and needs that draw them together more powerfully than the differing circumstances that might keep them apart, and it soon becomes clear that Yuri's slumber - mysteriously tied to the businessman plagued by the mark of his crime - will either restore or annihilate her.