We open with an appalling scene — a summer evening, a house by a river, two dead bodies and a dying man whose name is Eden. Then we flash back to the moment when our hero Oscar meets Eden and his sister Iris. We’re in Cambridge. Eden and Iris are students — eccentrics from a prominent family. Oscar is a normal boy from Watford. He works in an old people’s home. He flirts with Iris. There’s a touch of Brideshead. But then something weird happens. Eden, a music scholar, claims to be able to control people’s minds, using musical instruments. It sounds batty. But it’s scary. And, as we already know, it will get very scary indeed.
