THE KINGDOMS
Not your average Joe
Who is Joe Tournier? As The Kingdoms begins he couldn’t tell you himself; struck with amnesia, he becomes conscious on the platform of the Gare du Roi in Londres. It’s 1898, and Joe is a slave in this steelmaking city in England, part of the empire of France. Haunted by visions of a man on a beach, and told that the moments when he’s convinced everything around him is somehow wrong are the result of epilepsy, the arrival of a postcard sent decades earlier leads him to travel to the lighthouse at Eilean Mòr, in the Outer Hebrides.