Christopher Priest is an English science fiction writer, a representative of the “new wave”, author of the novels “The Prestige”, “The Space Machine” and “The Overturned World”, three-time winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award, laureate of the World Fantasy Award. On a strange day, Hollywood actress Jeanette Marchand, a beauty and a favorite of the audience, boarded a plane that was supposed to take her to London airport. The plane landed safely, and many saw Jeanette step off the ramp, but from that moment on she seemed to disappear into space and time. No one ever saw her again. All police efforts were in vain. Years later, a young successful film critic, Justin Farmer, fascinated by the history of cinema and aviation, starts a risky investigation with the firm intention of unraveling the mystery of the disappearance of the actress who captured his imagination.