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A monologue about self-examination, turmoil, loss, hope, disillusionment, ambition, and failure - Ivana Sajko paints a portrait of an intellectual at a crossroads. A man is on a train, heading from a small town on the southeastern coast of Europe to Berlin. As the wheels turn, his mind is busy thinking feverishly, tracing his past - and Europe's past - to a moment of violence that he must escape, drawing him further and further away from the only person he loves. Shipwrecks and border pushbacks; Epidemics and industrial ruin; A family separated due to economic circumstances; A brother lost in the clutches of crime; Love, fear, memories of happier times in Berlin - and yet, a silver thread of hope weaves through it all, woven by a distant friend. Every Time We Say Goodbye is an extended monologue about self-reflection, turmoil, loss, hope, disillusionment, ambition, and failure, and it is a harsh and deeply angry novel.