Willy Randle is a sensitive young man from a close, loving family. With a place at university and a new girlfriend, he's happy and confident, his future secure—until a minor accident leaves him with altered perceptions, and his world is shattered.

Willy begins to doubt his own senses, convinced that the world and the people around him are not what they seem. Determined to discover the truth about what has happened to him, he sets out on a quest that leads him ever further from the reality he has rejected—and deeper into the nightmarish and labyrinthine secrets of Irongrove Lodge...