Sometimes the biggest adventures are just on our doorstep. One long and languid London summer Michael, a keen cyclist and post grad student who can't get away finds himself exploring the worlds of psychic dimensions in the back streets of South Kensington and it's wonderful museums as he researches for his thesis. In there a mysterious Buddhist statue starts talking to him - something he tries to ignore especially when he's invited to a seance by his new mentor a psychic called Alice Meanwhile his college tutor leaves abruptly passing Michael on to new supervisor - Dr. Snyde; a devious and brilliant scholar but also one of a pair of occultists with plans to take him over - body and soul. During further investigations at the British Museum Michael encounters a mysterious girl called Pixie who joins him and Alice to add adventure to this strange summer. Then things start to go wrong. Very wrong.