Anthony has already lost more than most men lose in a lifetime.
Sold as a teenager, stripped of home and certainty, he survives exploitation, exile, and a world that repeatedly offers escape only to betray it. When his closest friend, Gerrard, is killed in a moment of senseless violence, Anthony's remaining will to live collapses. Unable to work, unable to sleep, and unwilling to imagine a future without the one person who made survival meaningful, he begins waiting-for death, or for something to end the pain.
At the urging of a psychiatrist, Anthony turns to compulsive writing as a last attempt to quiet his mind. What begins as a single name written at the top of a page becomes an unexpected journey-one that carries him far beyond the present and into the depths of memory, history, and the self.
Through a mysterious train with no fixed destination, Anthony drifts across eras and landscapes: the deserts of ancient Egypt, the streets of Babylon, the chaos of world war. Along the way, he encounters figures who guide, challenge, and reflect him-priests, seers, soldiers, and strangers whose lives echo his own search for meaning. Each place forces him to confront loss, identity, and the question he has been avoiding: why continue living when everything that mattered is gone?
As the boundaries between reality and imagination blur, Anthony must decide whether escape is truly possible-or whether healing demands something far more difficult than running away.
