In the vastness of America, the lives of strangers intertwine—each carrying silent wounds beneath the shimmer of their dreams.

Some have fled oppression and hunger, chasing the fragile promise of a new beginning.
Others have come in pursuit of success, a brighter future, or simply a place to belong.
Some have lost their families, others their children—and a few, themselves.

They have lived so long at the edge of despair that the precipice has become home, their days balanced on a razor's edge, haunted by the fear of falling.

Between the lines, hope and despair waltz endlessly, trading places like light and shadow.
Life here is not something learned—it arrives like a sudden, unrelenting wind, stripping away all illusions.

Those who resist, endure.
Those who cannot, drag others with them into the abyss.

A powerful debut from a young writer who has observed society with clear eyes and captured its pulse with uncommon depth and grace.