A private investigator - a stranger in a strange land - searches for a missing girl in Tokyo. Two brothers have a life-long pact. But what happens when a deal goes wrong? A homeless man gives up his drug and alcohol-fuelled life. But is the good life all it's supposed to be? Stopped by police one night, a group of friends runs into trouble. Soon, one of them must confront his past. These and other lives collide in Tokyo Jazz & Other Stories, a collection of crime and literary stories set in Japan and Australia.