An MI6 agent acts according to the rules of the spy genre, trying to infiltrate the great alchemists — the Poets’ society — but fails over and over again. A famous detective novel writer, meanwhile, travels between eras, unraveling the puzzle about a mysterious stranger who is about to meet her friends from past centuries.
Confrontation of friends and foes, forces of order and chaos, reason and imagination in a drama about the power of art and the search for a true purpose.