In a tale of mystery, there's a choice that reaches to a past that's been missing, starting with a loss early in a child's life, and a thread that stretches through the years. Until a young man arrives at the threshold of a world of adults and finds a task has been set before him, by the enigmatic figure of his grandfather. On a journey that leads away from his small village, to forgotten routes high among mountain passes and their towering cities, across ancient desert lands and the echoes of lost kingdoms that still linger there, to a city in the clouds and its riddle for a few who are drawn within. And to many other wonderful and desolate places, until the destination is at last reached, on a hidden and secret island, in the completion of his grandfather's request. Along this winding path, he finds what things are within a life - of fears and love, friendship and ambition, creativity and greed, death and regret. And a choice, in a moment that comes to each. Along with something more, at the beginning of a change unlike any that has been before. So in the end, if only one way, for all that can be regained instead of lost, there's been but a single question. And what then will be the choice? Reminiscent of a present-day fairytale, And Clouds Passed Above shares thematic similarities with The Alchemist, The Name of the Wind, and Life of Pi. Where each place is part of a choice in how to spend a life, and whether something else may lie beyond. At its heart is also the way the world seems as a child, the way each moment and experience has a feeling and texture, and magic and mystery, wondering if this might stay, each day, waiting to be rediscovered.