I didn't connect with this story at all. I appreciate the attempt to immerse the audience in an alien world and have them experience the world as the inhabitants do, without info dumps or awkward explanations of everyday objects, and only hints of the wider world. However, it's possible to go too far in that direction and leave the listener disoriented, and that's what happened to me. I never did get my bearings well enough to understand what was going on, what the various characters wanted, why they wanted it, or exactly what was at stake.
I got that Lorin was understandably distraught about her child being taken, that her daughter had been chucked into the Time Wall, which is some sort of portal to a different world, and in that world the child had grown up and not been a particularly good person -- taking other infants to the same fate as her own. Which she insisted wasn't all that bad. However, because she was "wrongly taken" she could reverse what was supposed to be a one-way trip at the insistence of this formerly-human androidish person whose people are burning off some seriously bad karma by serving something called the Kaireyeh, which is some sort of goddess, universal over mind, or something that is for some reason concerned with these matters. And intimately connected with the Time Walls. Reuniting mother and daughter at an advanced age somehow served Kaireyeh's interests, and was the occasion for some melancholy reflection by the protagonist.
After listening once and reading the text once, that is as close as I got to understanding the plot or characters. So, I think it's understandable that for me, the emotional engagement just wasn't there. If it hadn't been for Wilson Fowlie's excellent narration, I might have given up on it completely.
Better luck next week....