to appreciate eastern tradition calls for analyzing among the traces. this can be Hugh Mcpherson's problem in Nakamura Reality, a beguiling mix of poser, odyssey, inconsolable loss and obsession.

Absenting himself for a quick intimacy with a former female friend, Hugh leaves his surfing-obsessed sons on an remoted California seashore. whilst he returns, the eleven-year-old twins have vanished. A ferocious riptide has swept Takumi and Hitoshi out to sea, their our bodies unrecovered.

Devastated by means of the loss, Hugh and his jap spouse Setsuko divorce. Severing all ties to the US, Setsuko returns to Japan to reside together with her father, Kazuki Ono, a well-known writer of mind-bending novels.

After grieving for ten years and eager for Setsuko, Hugh swims out to sea to drown himself. As he sinks, his sons seem to him, protecting the final letter that he had despatched to their mom, begging her forgiveness.

Abandoning his suicide, Hugh swims again to shore. The incident awakens thoughts that throw doubt at the approved model of his sons' deaths. His doubts are intensified while he learns that Kazuki Ono has come to California to complete a unique known as Fingal's Cave, the story of a brash American who marries a jap lady opposed to the desires of her father, a strong businessman with ties to the Yakuza.

Provoked through his thoughts and obliquely revealing passages present in Kazuki's books, Hugh starts a Quixotic trip around the California panorama, encountering various characters of ill-will and cross-purpose, yet who inexorably lead him towards a film-industry enterprise referred to as Nakamura fact, and a labyrinth that demanding situations him to split truth from fiction to discover his method out... and maybe again to his sons.