Grandpa told me a story from when he was young: he rode a train that didn't appear on any schedule. This “unseen train” takes you to the lands of your dreams. Years ago, while deep in the mountains producing camphor, this impossible train stopped at a tiny, forgotten station to bring him home to his gravely ill wife.
But then Grandpa vanished for over twenty years. No one in our family spoke of his journey, and the unseen train never returned. Driven by the mystery, I searched tirelessly at that station, determined to find the train that cannot be found.
The Unseen Train is a graphic novel adaptation of Yao-ming Kan’s short story by the same name. Danger, suspense, and a sense of the surreal intertwine in this tale of a man’s search for a man’s lost youth. Clues reveal themselves layer by layer, as Kan brings us into contact with the tragic shadows of Taiwan’s White Terror period.