Our protagonist Palmer - wallflower, mystic seeker and paper mill operator - moves into a new apartment with his outwardly self-assured and womanizing friend, Perry. Thus begins an epic struggle of love, self-preservation. Events take a peculiar turn as Palmer befriends an iconoclastic co-worker, Billy Boy, and plunges headlong into a world of subterranean organisations, sorcery and wild goose chases. Palmer is worried that before any semblance of order can be restored, he must face more chaos.