The story is describing each characters personality and it's background. It tells a story of each characters story,character to character, that I think it was their life turning point event. The story is very slow and detailed that it is pretty easy to understand. Also, most of the characters are mysterious and maybe alittle difficult to understand for 'regular people(?)', it seems as if they all have a secret and they act as if they are isolated from the society, nor they participate in any of the society. It is hard to say they are not satisfied or unhappy about their life, it seems they do not have a standard of happiness in their mind. Also one thing I thought about reading this book, most characters don't have any greed. They are simple. They live as they feel, not by their thoughts, that's what I think atleast..