Ishiguro treks into the ancient world

'THERE’S a journey we must go on, and no more delay...” Like many other epic tales, set long, long ago in distant lands, this one begins with a quest. There is no ring to destroy, no fiend to slay, no honour to defend; Axl and his wife Beatrice seek their adult son, who has long departed their modest village.
Or at least that’s what they surmise – the whole land has been shrouded in a memory-clouding fog, and everybody suffers from a disorientating confusion of where they are and why they’re there.
Early on a little girl goes missing, and naturally a search party is sent out to find her. It isn’t long before they forget why they’re searching, and each wanders home in increasingly high spirits to return to their day to day lives.