Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest.

To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse — a voyage permitted only to those who’ve always believed there’s another world than the one that meets the eye. Those fated to make the passage are marked forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh after a single orgasmic night.

To this kingdom of ghost trains, lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four travelers:

Oleg, a New York locksmith;
the beekeeper November;
Ludovico, a binder of rare books;
and a young Japanese woman named Sei.

They’ve each lost something important — a wife, a lover, a sister, a direction in life — and what they will find in Palimpsest is more than they could ever imagine.