Kino's Journey

Kino and Hermes arrive in a strangely but very conveniently automated country and discover that the residents are avoiding each other at all costs.

In the dead of winter, Kino stops to help three seemingly helpless, cold and starving men who've been stuck in the snow for a long time.

The immigration officer welcoming Kino and Hermes into an otherwise beautiful country informs them that the world is about to end.

Kino recalls a fateful meeting she had with a traveler when she was a little girl living in her hometown — a meeting that changed her life forever.

After talking with an old man who's been cleaning long-abandoned train tracks for nearly 50 years, Kino ponders the meaning of work.

In what looks from the outside like a peaceful land, even travelers are made to fight for their right to live freely above ground.

Kino must continue to fight in the kill-or-be-killed gladiator matches against increasingly formidable opponents.

Nimya grew up as an orphan in a home that once belonged to a wise old man, and though she's all grown up now, she still dreams of learning to fly.

In a land where literature is strictly controlled, Kino and Hermes connect with members of a resistance group fighting for access to all books.

On their way to get Hermes a much-needed tune-up, the travelers end up staying with a very mechanical family.