It is Festival Week in Lichfield and the cathedral city is teeming with people; some resident, some invited; and some not... Benjamin - leader of a hippie peace convoy, a man with a mysterious past and a destructive purpose. Kosminski - the Polish Premier, ambassador for communism, and for the horrors of a gone but not forgotten era. The police - a force to be reckoned with, but not above corruption. The Bishop - guardian of the Lichfield Gospels, lifelong, believer in God - and the Devil. Haggard - the man in the black fedora. He knows no one, but inspires a chilling, creeping fear in everyone. There will never be another festival like this one...