The years 1935 and 2115 meet end to end, with 180 years artificially folded together. The two protagonists gaze at each other across the divide, while eight generations of love and hatred among three great families converge at one radiant moment in time. In this iron cage forged by time, we are all prisoners condemned to misery. Humanity imagines it has found the key to breaking out of the cage. How could it know? History marches on, and what destiny ordains cannot be changed by the paltry efforts of any one person.
