One man's loss mirrors an entire society's sorrow at their impending extinction. As the human population begins to decline, most people travel south to maintain a semblance of the life they know. Entire cities are abandoned. But following a senseless act of violence, one man travels north, toward forgotten lands. A DIFFERENT ALCHEMY is the story of a man realizing that everyone has their own pain and their own way of dealing with it. It is also a story about the importance of forgiveness.