2070. A dozen English schoolboys on a trip to Rome in a technologically advanced Europe worlds
away from a post-Brexit Britain marred by food shortages and poverty. Outsider Monk is
captivated. Fleeing into the city he vanishes. Twenty-five years later Monk's best friend
Banks returns to Rome and meets a wild-haired vagrant whom he realizes is a much aged Monk who
claims he has been in ancient Rome for all these years living under the Caesars.
