On a windswept headland above the Aden coast, an ageless archivist tends the only machine in the world that can store the days people wish to forget. For forty years, Desta has guided the grieving through their surrenderings with ritual precision and quiet grace. When a day bearing his own name surfaces from the deepest corridors of the archive — written in his own hand, with no memory of the entry — he must choose between the role that defines him and the past that was taken so he could serve.
