Un lugar desconocido

During a business trip in Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Since she suffered from coronary heart disease, the cause of her death is not as strange as where it happened: a secluded suburb of Tokyo that she had never told him about and where dating hotels abound. Intrigued, Asai tries to find out the true circumstances of her death through an obsessive investigation that leads him to piece together the unexpected secret life of his wife. As we accompany an impromptu detective on this journey full of twists and turns, Seicho Matsumoto slides her subtle criticism of mid 20th century Japanese society and the rigid conventions and falsehoods that cloud it. An intriguing puzzle cleverly put together through some of his favorite themes: lies, revenge and the fear of scandal.