Kino travels. Accompanied by Hermes — a talking Brough Superior motorcycle — she crosses a world made up of countless countries and forests, each with its own customs, laws, and way of being. Kino stays three days and two nights in every place, never more, on the principle that three days is enough to understand almost everything important about somewhere while still leaving time to move on. The world through Kino's eyes is not always beautiful and not always kind, but it is always worth seeing.