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How Pending Train Invites Everyone To Think Deeply About Life
On Believing In Something To Live For
INTRODUCTION & PLOT
It started like any other commute. People from all walks of life board a Tokyo train until something unthinkable happens.
Their train wagon №5 is suddenly transported to a ravaged world without food, water or communication.
They soon learn they’ve been hurled 40 years into the future — a future where Japan is in ruin after a meteorite strike.
In this strange and unforgiving world, each passenger must confront what drives them, whether they still want to return, and why.
Pending Train is not just a survival story, but a peek into the hearts of people who face the mundane, cruel, and vicious realities of life.
It offers a window into the human condition.
It shows us how people can be kind yet cruel, selfless yet brutal, hopeful yet despairing.
It explores how we find or lose our will to live in the face of absurdity.
