"Somewhere out there, in the depths of my vast homeland, where life seemed to stop, froze, dissolving into countless dots of godforsaken villages...
Where people are truly closer to real life than we are, my hero lives...
His house is next to the railroad. Every day, dozens, hundreds, thousands of human destinies and stories are rushing past it, enclosed by intruding iron caterpillars called trains... On both sides of the road there is an endless field..."
