Twenty-one-year old Japanese woman Noriko arrives to Sidney with her newly married husband Masahiko, but, as she believes that her marriage is a mistake, she walks out from their hotel room to meet young Australian George, whom she met in Tokyo a year before. The similar real accident from 1992 was a base for this novel, but was also a foundation for a script for Russell Crowe' s 1997 film Heaven's Burning. This novel is an extract from real life of young people in Japan in last decade of the 20. Century.

Sarajevo, the place where Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir apparent to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was shot by a Bosnian patriot named Gavrilo Princip. That event, on June 28, 1914, put Sarajevo on the map as the flashpoint of World War I. In December 1992, Japanese photographer Tsutomu Ishizu arrives to Sarajevo to take photos for his daily in Tokyo, but also to see friends he met in 1984, during Winter Olympic in that Yugoslav town. This is one possible story from war thorn Sarajevo, showing all different faces of the bloody civil war in Bosnia.