Successful entrepreneur A. A. Abrams is pursuing the enigmatic writer ‘Tomoyuki Tomoyuki’, who is never in one place for long. Very little is known about this wandering author, least of all his marvellous ability to write expertly in the tongue of wherever he happens to set foot. Abrams sinks endless resources into finding Tomoyuki, but this elusive writer seems to be both everywhere and nowhere, always taking off moments before being pinned down. Ingenious and dazzling, ‘Harlequin Butterfly’ unfolds one puzzle after another, taking us on a mind-bending journey into the imagination.