The story takes place in South Africa and India.

In South Africa, the narrator, Paul, drifts between an ideal world, where he is happily married to his partner Nirraz, and a dark and horrible nightmare where an unidentified madman is torturing him in the gay couple's own wine cellar.

Nirraz is a sociologist and his lover Paul teaches biology at the local school. The couple have the special ability to experience the same grotesque dreams - they recite their ten dreams to a psychologist.

The couple are friends with their neighbour Sheila, a dovorcee, her boyfriend Peter and her son...

Paul is stunned when his foster son Herman tells him about the awfully devastating news concerning his gay hooker friend Jonathan, who was found dead with his head lying in a pool of orange liquid. Four bizarre physiological phenomena, each lasting four days, preceded his death. Paul's research discovers two other gay teenage male hookers who died under similar circumstances as Jonathan, and all three dead teenagers had four letters tattooed on their chests. They were all sixteen years old.

The clues to the decoding of the tattooed letters are revealed in Paul's dreams, and are connected to...

While heavily sedated in a South African hospital, a retired bishop dreams of his father who tell him: "I am here to tell you Jason that you have been chosen in this 2041 year of our Lord as the one to reveal the truth encrypted in the Eye of the Messiah, with its thirteen significant elements, as it was written in the secret scroll of Isaiah. The truth will be revealed in 13 dreams involving 13 objects." Jason is attended to by the Matron Larne, who is a part-time hooker, and a male nurse Paul who is gay. One of Larne's clients, Myaso, is the son of a witchdoctor. Next to Jason's room is a...