Toru receives a letter from Naoko explaining that she has gone to Ami Hostel, a special kind of sanatorium, to recover from psychological problems she has been having. A few weeks later Midori invites him over to her house, and while watching a house fire from her balcony they kiss. Meanwhile, Toru meets Midori Kobayashi, an underclassman in his drama class with a vibrant and quirky personality who seems to have taken an interest in him. The next day he tries to contact her again, but later finds that she has moved.
On Naoko's 20th birthday, Toru comes over to her apartment, and when she breaks down into tears he comforts her and then has sex with her. Nagasawa begins to take him out some nights to find random girls to sleep with. The two end up going on dates every Sunday, simply walking extensively throughout the city meanwhile, Toru deals with his stuttering and eccentrically neat roommate, nicknamed " Storm Trooper," and gets to know Nagasawa, a charismatic and egoistic upperclassman in the dorm. Independent of each other, both Toru and Naoko decide to leave their hometown for Tokyo to attend university, where they run into each other in 1968 in their first year. However, their lives were torn apart in their second year of high school when Kizuki inexplicably committed suicide. Along with Naoko, who was Kizuki's girlfriend and childhood friend, Toru and Kizuki formed an inseparable small group. Toru grew up in Kobe with Kizuki as his best and only friend. He remembers a meadow where he and Naoko, the girl he loved, walked 18 years ago when he was still 19. While on an airplane descending to Hamburg Airport, Toru Watanabe hears the Beatles song " Norwegian Wood" played over the speakers and is overcome by painful memories of his past.
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