Viktorianskaya Angliya, Portsmut. V Klarendon-Haus, «pansion dlya otdyha dzhentl'menov s rasshatannymi nervami», pribyvaet novyy postoyalec — Charl'z Dodzhson, uzhe proslavivshiysya kak L'yuis Kerroll, avtor «Alisy v Strane chudes», — i nervy u nego ochen' rasshatany. Charl'zu Dodzhsonu snyatsya zloveshchie sny — ego sobstvennye personazhi prorochat emu i ego znakomym krov', smert' i katastrofy ne...