Margaret Oliver has left the prison of her disastrous marriage for a few days of rest at the remote sea cottage recently vacated by her Aunt Josie.

But instead of rest, she finds only torment. Plagued night and day by terrifying visions, Margaret cannot escape the haunting presence of Josie and her lover, Paul Tyson -- the brilliant physicist whose explorations into the action of time have led to his mysterious death.

And all the while, her subconscious is painfully active... goading her on... twisting to the brink of insanity...

Margaret Oliver is about to enter a world unknown to the science of man...