I am using the term multiform story to describe a written or dramatic narrative that presents a single situation or plot line in multiple versions, versions that would be mutually exclusive in our ordinary experience. [...] Multiform stories often reflect different points of view of the same event. The classic example of this genre is Rashomon (1950), the Kurosawa film in which the same crime is narrated by four different people: a rape victim; her husband, who is murdered; the bandit who attacks them; and a bystander.