Alka, Ryska, and Zhar continue their difficult journey: someone wants to escape the past, someone wants to change the future, and someone is glad with both the present and the present—yet fate relentlessly drives them all onward.
It’s hard not only for the undaunted trio: clouds gather over both tsarствa, the Year of the Rat is gaining strength without mercy, and avoiding it seems already impossible.
Where will the Wayfarer go? For whom will the Candle light the road? And what does a guitar have to do with it?