Nobody's Story follows an unnamed labouring man living beside a great, ever-flowing river — a symbol of time's indifferent current — who works tirelessly, raises his family in poverty, and asks only for education, fair governance, and simple human dignity. When the powerful "Bigwig family" quarrels endlessly over politics and doctrine, his children fall to ignorance, his neighbours die in a pestilence, and his pleas go unanswered. His quiet reckoning with his Master — that all social ills begin below but never stay there — carries a weight that the powerful refuse to acknowledge.

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