The whole island is a tombstone, a testament, and a signal. It's a story of hope, with themes of rebirth and healing. It seems that the "road to damascus" moment for the main character is a sudden realization that life is far more than the physical. Esther is killed in a car accident, her lover travels to the island where they both have history, and carves into it a message of hope and salvation, and remembrance. Both the narrator and Esther are, well, ghosts, who are enshrined in the island itself, where they await a witness, namely, the player