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It is twelfth-century Japan, and a nobleman has been killed. A magistrate is charged with establishing the identity of the killer and delineating the sequence of events leading up to the murder. Several witnesses are called to testify – the victim’s wife, the accused (a notorious bandit), a woodsman as well as the victim himself (through a spirit medium). Each witness provides a singular account of the man’s death. They agree on but a single fact – that the nobleman is dead. How he died, and by whose hand, are very much in dispute.