Línea de fuga

Two strangers on a train bound for Siberia seek a chance to escape their own fears. Complicity will be their only hope for freedom. With a blinding, boreal cadence, Maylis de Kerangal's story, illustrated by Araiz Mesanza, captures the flow of time in a space suspended between possibilities and offers us a vulnerable and silent portrait of escape. In a Trans-Siberian carriage, Alyosha, a young Russian soldier, decides to desert the fate imposed upon him: military service in Siberia. In his escape attempt, he crosses paths with Hélène, a French passenger fleeing her lover, with whom he forges a brief alliance beyond words.