He traded an empire for the wild.

General Marcus Dives conquered the modern world, only to realize the relentless, deafening noise of society was drowning out his own life. So, he walked away.

Trading the concrete grid for the unforgiving, raw majesty of nature, The Simple Man is a cinematic, deeply philosophical novella about stripping away the armor we wear every day to find out what it actually means to be alive.

It is a story for anyone who has ever looked at their glowing screen, looked at the exhausting pace of the modern world, and thought: There has to be something more than this.