The filmmaker had the courage to get inside a sect, Aum, that committed criminal actions. He was wondering whether there was more to this group than the demonic image imposed by the media. He shows the sect and Japanese society facing each other like twins, like mirror images. The film expresses a sense of the confusion of our post-modern world. It gives a frightening picture of a society under stress, where the germs of totalitarianism can very easily surge in order to restore a lost consensus.