At the heart of these stories are living testimonies from us, the people of the inside (if that's the right term), trapped in the "here," moving between multiple places. Here, and over the past years, place and geography have played a significant role in determining destinies. Diverse and even starkly contrasting models are presented, drawing on that eternal desire humans use for healing: storytelling.
These are tales crafted over ten lean years, tales of loss without a doubt. Even the survivors here are losers. These stories carry themes revolving around loss: our dreams that were buried, even the small ones, and memory crises (the memory we sometimes willingly lose to rid ourselves of burdens we carry, and sometimes unwillingly because someone distorts and erases it). There are existential crises for characters who lost themselves and turned into something else, or lost their dignity, wasted in long queues waiting for daily sustenance, or sacrificed as a price for the fear we breathe. There's loss, loneliness, and alienation.
After ten heavy, exhausting years, we are all losers here in one way or another. I think perhaps it's time to look back and count our losses. Our awareness of them might make us more capable of breaking free from them and moving forward.