Galactic Railroad is a slow-paced, dreamlike journey through space and time. When Giovanni, a lonely boy in a hill town, goes to get milk for his ailing mother, he finds himself crossing the Milky Way on a faster-than-light steam railroad. The stations he visits in various constellations offer curious adventures and an assortment of human 'types'. Reality and fantasy blur aboard the train, and its travels across the light-years sometimes suggests the journey through life.