The Last Cartographer

Reinhardt Metz is one of the last hand-drawn cartographers in a world ruled by satellites and sterile precision. When his final commission in London is completed, he is quietly dismissed—his art deemed obsolete in an age that measures everything from above. But Reinhardt knows that maps are more than records of geography; they are acts of listening, interpretations of memory, and conversations with the land itself.
Still grieving the mysterious disappearance of his wife Elena—who believed some places “remember us first”—Reinhardt discovers her unfinished sketches of a place that does not appear on any official chart: the Archipelago of Echoes.
When a mysterious commission arrives from Captain Tanya Herbst to map these uncharted islands, Reinhardt accepts, bringing along his skeptical apprentice, Marcel. Yet aerial photographs reveal something impossible: mountains that shift, coastlines that refuse to remain fixed, and shadows that defy logic. Stranger still, historical records show no trace the islands ever existed.
As the voyage begins, Reinhardt realizes this is no ordinary expedition. The Archipelago does not wish to be measured. It demands to be heard.
And some maps, once drawn, change the cartographer forever.