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"Tower House" is an experimental documentary about the house of the same name built in Tokyo by Takamitsu Azuma in 1966. Tower House was built on a 20-square-meter plot of land and from the moment of its creation was regarded as a symbol of living in the center of a modern metropolis. The architect designed the house for his family in the form of a continual vertical room, wherein the staircase is the most significant structure of the interior. It connects the individual rooms, which are "piled" one on top of the other without any doors separating them. The inspiration for this film came from the concept of the staircase as a connecting structure: these stairs become directing elements. Beginning at street level and spiraling upwards, the specially-adapted camera films panorama shots from one step to the next, right up to the top floor. In one uninterrupted, spiraling motion, the viewer is given a complete look at the building, its bare concrete walls and all of the living spaces all along the way to the top, ending in a view of the city from the uppermost window. This pictorial explanation of the inner structure of the house is complemented by an audio "tour" provided in the form of a narrative spoken by the inhabitant of the house, the daughter of the architect in which she speaks about the building itself and her life in it. Simultaneous to the step-by-step and floor-to-floor ascending camera view, the story of the protagonist develops while she tells stories of her childhood memories and her present life in Tower House. The film "Tower House" is not only a portrait of this fascinating building; it also deals with the urban and social changes which have taken place in Japan in the last few decades by its use of a cinematic coupling of space and history.