As a child, the first-person narrator went to sea in her grandmother's kitchen cupboard. Later, she travelled to Iran by plane. Just as her love of foreign shores has remained – so has the longing to overcome the distance between herself and the strange world beyond. Wandering through Tehran, the past is her constant companion, and, - with reference to Lévi-Strauss' "Sad Tropics" – she is continually looking for a cat to have a conversation with...