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Loosely based on 'Down and out in Paris and London' by George Orwell, part one of 'Voyager' takes us back to the late 1980's when young, naive, gullible, idealistic, uneducated, secret palindromist Johnny Regayov quits his northern home town and heads south for London, desperate for a life of fun and Hedonism. There, he plunges into a world of endless and mindless jobs, itinerant living, casual relationships, squatting, drugs, drink, fare-dodging and knife-edge survival. Skating, sliding and sometimes breaking the ice and falling through, he always manages to get back on his feet though life teaches him some harsh lessons and love kicks him in the teeth but somehow, through it all, he stays on the safe side of healthy and sane, puts it all down to experience and manages to extricate himself without too much harm to learn to bounce back to fight another day.
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