Long-time friends, Mike and Phil, are both psychology academics with a leaning towards the extraordinary. When Mike experiences two events he can't readily explain, he invites Phil over to his newly rented cottage near Tavistock in Devon, to talk it over. With their seasoned use of psychometrics and hypnotic regression they find themselves in an ever deepening mystery involving a 14th. Century Knight and his family, a WW1 captain suffering from shell-shock, and a small village, Le Luc, in the south of France. However, as the story mushrooms, Mike and Phil's hypnotic techniques are forced to evolve way beyond even their own joint expectancies, to the point where we are increasingly left wondering where this story is going, and indeed, where it will end...