What happens when a machine built entirely for motion becomes perfectly still? In 1999, a gleaming new airport opened with grand ambitions. By 2008, it was abandoned-a fully intact infrastructure frozen in time. For seventeen years, a single caretaker tended this silent cathedral of departure and arrival, learning lessons no operational airport could teach. Using this specific, surreal place as an anchor, the book explores profound questions about time, ambition, impermanence, and whether we can find meaning in thresholds themselves rather than constantly rushing toward destinations.