The cruise ship — the "ship of dreams," as the narrator of this story calls it — is on a voyage through the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. However, for the person who is captivated by this journey and has long stayed away from the shore, the final destination will be death.

Once again, now at the beginning of the 21st century, in a novel that encapsulates the experiences of modernism, postmodernism, and post-postmodernism (a movement attributed to its author, Alban Nikolai Herbst), we encounter a sea voyage as a profound metaphor for human life. This metaphor has been known since the times of the ancient Egyptian "Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor" and Homer's "Odyssey."