The story starts out with an unsolicited e-mail offering the protagonist a clone of himself to realize a secretly cherished dream. The knowledge and experience are automatically transmitted into the original person based on a commercial application of the closeness of monovular twins. The dream the protagonist wishes to realize is to speak, read and write Japanese fluently.
While the clone studies Japanese, the protagonist receives the knowledge automatically. After making acquaintance with the Japanese language, the clone learns about the country and its people in a section that describes the humorous adventures and observations of an irreverent, maladjusted Dutchman in Japan. This section also focuses on Japan's earliest history, the Tokugawa era, the Second World War, and post-war history.
After learning this, the protagonist is no longer sure if the realization of his dream is of any use to him, even if it requires no effort on his part. Thus the clone's meaning of life comes into question. As the clone lives in the protagonist's girlfriend's apartment, this becomes a pressing and darkly humorous issue. The comedy progresses with a double layer and includes two separate sections, of which the one can be called the greatest literary insult of all time.
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