When a bomb explodes in a university cafe, nineteen students are killed.
The Empty Space begins with the identification of these slain
students. Slowly, each individual is claimed and taken away for a proper
burial by their mourning family members. The final mother to enter the
cafe identifies the nineteenth body as her eighteen-year-old son and
brings him home in a casket. She not only brings home her dead son,
though, but also the sole survivor of the blast, a three-year-old boy.
By a strange quirk of fate, after the explosion he is found lying in a
small empty space, alive and breathing. The Empty Space chronicles the
memories of the boy dead, the story of the boy brought home, and the
cataclysmic crossing of life and death.