It's been several months since the events of The Yellow M, but the evil
of Professor Septimus still echoes around London. Important figures of
the capital's jet set come together around the questionable values the
mad scientist defended. Olrik is forced to resort to opium in order to
forget he was guinea pig. As for Mortimer, he too is trying, albeit for
more humanist reasons, to revive certain aspects of Septimus's work--to
Blake's extreme concern...