Zone

Over the course of a single overnight train ride, Francis Servain Mirkovic recounts the violent history of the Zonethe lands of the Mediterranean basin, Spain, Algeria, Lebanon, Italyand recalls the damage that his own participation in that violence has wreaked in his own life. Mirkovic hopes that this night will be his last in the Zone, that this journey will expiate his sins, and that he can disappear with Sashka, the only woman he hasnt abandoned, forever . . .