At the end of an arduous journey, young Refugee 214 finally gets his chance to enter the Other World. But one final test awaits him: the boy must first tell the story of how he and his sister were forced to flee their homeland. Frightened and helpless, they crossed forests, deserts, and seas, encountering creatures each more mysterious and frightening than the last: the capitalist ogre, the smuggler-snake, and the ever-present shadows from the great beyond… The boy must tell his tale down to every last detail—but will the truth be his salvation or his doom?