Samir is 84. Caught in the well-worn routine of a life lived in his home town of Dover, he is far from where his story began. Yet belonging is a word with a habit of changing its mind.

Now another crossing awaits him. Beyond the world of the living, time no longer keeps its order, and the land begins to shed the names he once knew. Carrying the memories of an ordinary life, he passes into something older than nations, older than borders — older, even, than the idea of a stranger.