The Time I Hoped it was You

ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴅᴏᴇꜱ ɪᴛ ᴛʀᴜʟʏ ᴍᴇᴀɴ ᴛᴏ ꜱᴀʏ ɢᴏᴏᴅʙʏᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛʜɪɴɢꜱ ᴡᴇ ʟᴏᴠᴇ?

Alan Richards. A 72 years old man who's living with his wife in a house they both built. When his grandchildren came to visit him, they immediately asked him to tell them a story that he doesn't really want to talk about.

His life.

When they can't stop asking, he gives in. However only on one condition... He had to make it interesting. Not just a plain explanation of memories, but actually an original content. He thought hard, and decided to make it so that his life was being experienced inside a TRAIN; The Train of Destiny.

Now that plot is set, comes the real problem. Can he talk about the past that led him to many scars and cries? Is he able to tell the story fully to his three grandchildren who are desperate for a story that came originally from him?

What begins as a harmless story becomes a mirror of the life he tried to forget, filled with unexpected detours, painful memories, and a mysterious encounter that changed the course of his entire life.

Somewhere between the stations of memory and imagination, an old man finds what it truly means to reach your destination.

"I miss you... my Ophelia..."