Behind everything ordinary there is a mystery. All the traces that a person leaves during his life add up to some important news. And there are people who turn reality into a nightmare, and even try to impose this nightmare on all of us...

This masterpiece of modern sensual Gothic is the story of Andrew Half-Dark, whose life - partly a vague dream, partly a nightmare - begins with a fatal his mother's choice and ends in the arms of his beloved. And everything that fits in between: birth and death, journeys and storms, islands and abysses, comets and mystical treatises, women killing in the name of love, and lovers sacrificing their bodies is a winding path to understanding the mystery on which everything that exists rests .