Life is difficult, easy, loving, lonely. This is the same for everyone, it can be a long broad road with many walking beside you at the end. Or it can be a walk up a mountain alone. The life of such a walk is difficult to place, will it be hard all the way or hard because you're going up the mountain and waiting to take the easy road down again? Which road are you walking? Which road is the main character in this book walking? I can't answer the first, but I'm writing the answer to the second.