The first is jealousy, saved through faith; the second safety, found in homecoming. The third is no more or less a journey; the fourth a lonely stretch of street. The fifth is a dream which haunts; the sixth a mystery which taunts. The seventh, alone, is ended and begun.

This collection of tales from distant lands, of distant people, may not in its entirety be true - but it undeniably contains fragments of a whole truth.