Wrongland balances on an edge of migration and return. It crosses from an Albania recently rid of Hoxha to a Greece riven by tensions that ultimately drive the protagonist on to America. But homecoming is the pivot -- one stuck in an unavoidable vying between alternate worlds.

The reader, a simple stranger, is introduced to Ters, a city configured by remnants from the past, a locale scored by evil -- at times, gripped by good.