It took me scarcely 20 seconds to pencil in that line on a Google world map, printed in greyscale. The line. From Sundsvall to Sundsvall - l by way of the world. In my mind it was not any more complicated than that. Deserts and mountains. National borders and the boundaries of pain. Over doorsteps and straight into people's homes and lives. It was all about curiosity. And a burning desire to find out what awaited me on the other side. My name is Fredrika. I am a very ordinary girl with occasionally unusual ideas. This book is about one of them. I set out, and 1042 days and a planet later, I came home again with a story to tell.