MATTHEW FOX has resigned himself to a life devoid of emotion, working at a chain bookstore in Chicago. After a chance meeting with TRESA, an intuitive young woman, he learns his heart is missing. The duo travels to Japan to revisit Matthew's former life. Matthew reconnects with old friends and is advised by two eccentric Buddhist monks to seek his missing pieces, a journey which takes them to rural Buddhist temples, mountaintop shrines, through frigid snowfalls, to warm Okinawan coastlines, to Japanese-occupied Manchuria and back. Matthew loses hope and blames a flaw inherited from the father he never knew. In order to face his past he must face the flaw in himself and confront the source of regret he has been punishing himself for, abandoning the woman he loved when she needed him. Matthew's life exists within the books of a library in a house cut off from the outside world where a man with no memory called CHARLIE reads them. Unable to leave, he explores the house and begins to understand that everything around him is connected to Matthew, including himself. He reads the story of the two Buddhist monks, which leads Charlie to believe that he and the house were created by Matthew. Charlie must escape when he discovers a decay destroying everything in the house. Charlie and Matthew's stories collide when they are forced to make a choice between love and need.
31 parts