Voyager - Part One

Voyager - Part OneLoosely 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, hungry 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

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, hungry 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 living. 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 the futile promise of elusive, ever-lasting love becomes a sour illusion that regularly kicks him in the teeth, but somehow, through it all, he stays on the safe side of healthy and sane, puts it down to experience and manages to extricate himself without too much harm to learn to bounce back. Until, one day, the resilience is no longer there and, inevitably, his luck runs out.