Miru Koto / Original Title: ENSAIO SOBRE a LUCIDEZ

[Machine Translation] Four years after the incident of sudden blindness, the general election in the capital city is hit by a downpour. At 4:00 p.m., people rush to the polling stations, but more than 70% of the votes are blank, and more than 80% of the votes are blank in the second round. The government declares a state of emergency and seals off the capital. While government organizations flee the city, citizens begin to govern themselves in the capital, but there is no one to organize them, and a large-scale terrorist attack occurs at the central subway station. Peaceful demonstrations by citizens, communal funerals in the plaza in front of the subway, cabinet ministers seeking to maintain their power and self-preservation... A letter arrives to the president, and the investigation of the kind woman who encouraged everyone in the "White Darkness" case begins. A counterpart to the masterpiece "White Darkness," this book by the Nobel Prize-winning author is an alarming book.

突然目が見えなくなる「白の闇」事件から4年後、首都の総選挙は土砂降りに見舞われる。午後4時になると人びとは投票所に押し寄せるが、7割以上が白票、再投票では白票が8割を超える。政府は非常事態宣言を発し、首都を封鎖する。政府組織が市外に脱出する一方、首都では市民たちの自治が始まるが、彼らを組織する首謀者は見えず地下鉄中央駅で大規模なテロが発生する。市民たちの平和的なデモ、地下鉄前広場での共同葬儀、権力維持と自己保身に走る閣僚たち...。やがて1通の手紙が大統領に届き、「白の闇」事件でみんなを勇気づけた優しい女性の捜査が始まる。傑作『白の闇』と対をなすノーベル賞作家による警鐘の書。