'I am beginning to suspect that nothing is quite as it seems, ' John commented. Professor Atlas smiled. 'True, but can you imagine just how awful life would be if everything was exactly as it seemed?' A darkly comic psychological fantasy. A man awakes in a mysterious mental asylum with no memory of who he is or how arrived there. As he attempts to discover his identity, he has a series of bewildering encounters with the other patients and the equally odd psychiatrists.