Had her husband fallen under the spell of the Orient, or something much more powerful?
when Marcia Talbot receives the letter from her husband Jerome telling her that he wants a divorce, she acts quickly. She boards a plane to Japan, where Jerome has been working, confident that she can change his mind and bring him back home with her.
but when she arrives, Marcia is no linger sure...of anything. Jerome is a stranger to her-a man obsessed with Japan and the mysterious work going on in his laboratory. He tells her only that he will never return to the States, leading her confused and hurt. What, or who, is so important to him that he would give up all that they have together? And what frightening truth waits behind the locked door to which Jerome, and Jerome only, holds the key?