Kino and Hermes travel through various lands, where they encounter not only people condemned to loneliness by telepathy, but also a failed system of government — and three railway workers who each carry out their duties without knowing the others exist. In the Land of Adults, Kino's identity is transformed, and in the kingdom of Verdervar, the inhabitants have grown weary of mourning those they love, and are prepared to make very different, tragic sacrifices in the name of peace…
