After the Quake, six stories written by Haruki Murakami during the time when the Japanese island shook and a gas attack shocked society. Both events - the Kobe earthquake with thousands of deaths and the terrorist acts in the Tokyo subway - prompted him to return from exile in 1995 to, as he said, support his country. After the Quake: A seller of HiFi equipment's wife spends five days and nights in front of the television, watching images of the disaster from the earthquake - then she leaves her husband, who embarks on a journey with a mysterious package. A fortune teller sees deep into the hate-filled soul of a doctor who wishes death upon a man from Kobe who has shattered her hopes. The fourteen-year-old Sara encounters the earthquake man in her nightmares, who wants to lock her in a box. And the bank employee Katagiri has something in his past.