Tormented artist, Edward Bush, wanders through the vacant centuries of the remote past, shadowed by the Dark Woman, who continually persecutes him with new questions, possibilities and terrors. Was she a hallucination produced by the stresses of his bizarre existence? Or was she a ghost from a future more remote than his own? Bush is removed from his contemplative state when he returns to his own time -the year 2093 - and is forced into a brutal regime to supervise mind-travel.