In the beginning there is a dream. A boy lays aslumber, sleeping the sleep of a thousand years. A wOman enters the space of his sleep. A kiss and a seed is planted withininin the ear of the sleeping boy, held within the soil of his consciousness. The seed germinates. From his thousand year sleep the boy named Ami awakens, rising, and in turn, planting the soles of his feet withininin the soil of the American continent that lays before him. The boy faces east.

Across a vast sea, in the midst of an expansive and immeasurable desert, another wakens to his calling, to begin his journey. He...