Airport terminals are monuments to the human condition of transience, all of us passing through on arrivals and departures to and from places representing obligation and aspiration, dread and excitement, sadness, boredom, leisure, and joy. This holding tank of heightened scrutiny, strict schedules, and intensely stratified hierarchies is nevertheless a gateway to limitless possibilities. Ninety million travelers passed through LAX in 2018, holding close their unique histories and mysterious agendas, faceless blurs in life’s long game.