He's an erotic cartoonist: she makes exotic jewellery and works as a receptionist in a whorehouse. She collects clippings of unsolved murders of women from lurid newspapers and is a rational, tippling cynic who also has flashes of psychic ability. He's an aging party boy who's been getting into exploring heightened states of mind through S/M sex clubs and a drug called SILT that has permeated the gay community. Then he - along with a host of other gay men of a certain age - disappears, and Eve is forced on a mission beyond anything she has ever imagined possible...