From a far away city, embarking on an endless trip in a distant continent to challenge himself to be new again, a young man sets himself up for all that the planet has to offer. Grozny had treated him too well for a couple of years despite the fact that he wasn't born in the city. He only ascended to Grozny to make an attempt at making ends meet like any ambitious fellow would. In Sharoy, a humble region where only a small population thrived and where Kalzan was born, history is rich and so tourists seasonally flock in to savour the culture as well as, for the daredevils, hike the alluring unexplored terrain of snow-capped mountains that dot the land.

Kalzan's wanderlust often times led him to escapades that had the potential to find work and cared less if any work he was lucky to find paid or not. As long as it provided him an opportunity to be somewhere else and learn more about how life works, he was just fine and always returned home to rejuvenate. His dad, a double limb amputee from a devastating diabetes since Kalzan was only toddler, was a constant presence at home unlike his mum who, years past, had accepted a role as a bus conductor that commuted between Grozny and Tbilisi in the neighbouring Georgia undertaking one trip each day and one trip each night between the cities, spending up to fifteen hours a day on the road but making too little income to lift the whole family up. The job also meant that she was the cargo loader of the bus with the help of station Marshalls. The load had took a toll on her, reducing her once strong, beautiful physical figure into a husk that a squall could blow away.

Kalzan's only sibling, Mateoz, was older than him and had understandably, according to distant acquaintances of the family in Grozny, had since changed citizenship and moved to Latvia where his education sponsor had offered to help him find a university placement to pursue his dream in Electrical Engineering. However, over two years since his last word was last heard of, no word had come from him or from any quarters as to the whereabouts of the young man, a nightmare that had shaken the family to its core and it doesn't help that their dad's irreversible illness and the mother's hard labour on the road were already worth some huge mental and material attention. Kalzan had always felt that it was upon him, him alone, to reverse his family's horrid situation and to, at least, do the onus of finding decent income that would persuade his mum to quit the bus and come home to be with her husband. She wouldn't settle for less, considering it was manly her job that afforded the family food and medication for Soaz, Kalzan's dad.

The disappearance of his brother from Chechinya had shattered Kalzan's dreams, so bad that he no longer knew what his priorities were: to find work and be home with ageing parents and to provide for them, or to get a wife, have his own children and bring more responsibility to an already overwhelmed family, or to go on a blind battle of looking for his lost brother. It is the exact concerns Lucia, his mum, had expressed to Soaz one morning when Kalzan had revealed to them that he would like to sacrifice his time and energy to ensure they are safe, healthy and stable in Sharoy even in his absence if he ever left the region for work in a far away land. Soaz and Lucia didn't want to influence Kalzan because they wanted him to feel free to follow his dreams for his own sake much as they were paranoid about losing a second son, the last one, into the unknown.