The bastard child of Haruki Murakamiβs 1Q84 and Stephen Kingβs CARRIE, KAI explores how one innocent girl becomes the target of enormous rage living inside another girl- who is seemingly from another world.
Satsuki Takamoto is an invisible otaku teenager in Hiroshima. The only thing she has going for her is the upcoming birth of her sister. No longer will she be alone. But when her mother has a gory miscarriage right in front of her, Satsuki loses her one chance at happiness. She spirals into a deep depression, shutting out everyone and everything by locking herself inside her bedroom-for good. Her sadness, however, pales in comparison to her uncontrollable anger. It spreads like a nuclear fire, ambivalent to what or who it destroys, and wonβt stop until Satsuki accepts her sisterβs death.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world in Evanston, Illinois, Seul Bi Rissiello canβt sleep because every time she closes her eyes, she relives her adoptive parentsβ gruesome deaths. Why is she thinking so much about them now, ten years afterward? As she struggles with working at a clinic for the mentally disturbed, Seul Bi starts to unravel under the weight of living a lonely life and being twice an orphan. Her life devolves into a series of ominous and dangerous hallucinations that threaten not only her sanity, but her very existence as well.
As both girls struggle to understand what is happening to them, their enigmatic connection comes into focus, raising the question: What if all the suffering in your life was carefully choreographed by somebody youβve never met?
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