Imagine a world of only men.
No one is ever born here. Death is Man’s entry into this world. When he arrives, Man possesses in his heart the conviction of some prior existence. But memories of his past life fade with time.
Man wanders this realm. He comes across others like him. They band together as tribes in order to survive. New identities and culture are forged by the common desire to live. The systems of their former lives dissipate, now irrelevant.
Languages merge. Names are lost. Man adapts and forgets.
Imagine a world where the most basic premises of human existence are overturned.
Man cannot reproduce. He exists without Woman, without a single female counterpart. Man is never born. The few boys who come to this world rarely survive long past their entry. Man cannot escape. The only known exit from this world is death, and even death brings Man great uncertainty.
What do men live for under these conditions? How does Man explain his own existence? What civilizations emerge from humans who have no hope for reproduction?
What laws govern the afterlife?
And what is the nature of the Man who rises to power in this realm and rules over his fellow men?
Now imagine a desert world comprised solely of men.
Then imagine the day a woman enters it, the first to ever do so.
This is her story—a tale of the hereafter.