THE NOVEL

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MIKU IS MISSING

Rafael, a roaming expat who refuses to admit he's lost distracts himself with romantic adventures in Central Europe. His ex has just broken up with him again, at the Prague zoo, when he meets three strangers, Milo, Sonia, and Jizelle, looking for a flatmate.

Rafael learns that his new roomies have more going on than their day jobs at a Bohemian glass shop, with their uncanny access to money and drugs. They also introduce him to the beautifully unhinged Arisawa.

When the Trio recruit him to drive to Paris with Arisawa, to deliver what they show to be invitation-only, luxury perfumes, the operation unfurls to reveal an elite, bio-existentialist cult that harvests "vibes" for their scents from Tokyo to Prague to Paris.

As his last ex would say, "If you're going through hell—keep going."

When Rafael enters the Maison Toyama-Beaumont, he joins the shadow-side of enlightenment. Because of his unique "resonance", he becomes the key to the cult's transcendence—or the arbiter of change the Maison cannot control.1

Graffiti and stickers on a wall in Tokyo showing a woman's face in surprise.
Punk just smells that way | Tokyo (JP) 2024

Miku Is Missing is a work in progress.

PLAYLIST

Miku Is Missing is a dark comedy and psycho-drama about love as erasure and the extraction of identity.

Miku Is Missing is about the seen and unseen world and versions of our selves outside what we are conditioned to believe is possible or true.

Miku Is Missing makes your subconscious laugh while your body squirms.

AN INVITATION

Manifestation is for beginners

VESPER & VOID: The Architecture of Absence is a monthly source of resonance from Maison Toyama-Beaumont.

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1 Names and plot elements subject to change as the project develops.