We open on Manhattan in 1974, groggily awaking from its turbulent night. Rael, our reluctant protagonist, emerges from a subway into the light to see a lamb, of all things, lying down in the middle of Broadway. Unbeknownst to him, this creature signals the start of an epic journey, deep into the well of the past and through the looking glass of his own soul.

Rael gazes up into the sky to see a mysterious dark wall form above Times Square. It soon descends to the ground and then begins to move north, submerging everything in its path into the unknown. Rael runs for his life, but dust begins sticking to him until he's unable to move; a sitting duck. The wall overtakes him, and Rael is thrown into another world.

Rael plunges through the wall into a mirror world, and in a swirl of activity celebrities and figures from his childhood appear in strange, unintelligible juxtapositions. It's so intense that Rael is left exhausted by the end, floating deeper into the unknown.

After the shock of entering the mirror world, Rael falls asleep while wool wraps around him, forming a cocoon. He awakes prematurely in a daze to find himself alone in a cave, and contemplates his fate before falling back to sleep.

Rael wakes up in a sweat as he finds his cocoon gone and himself surrounded by rapidly shifting stalactites and stalagmites. This cave soon morphs into a cage, trapping Rael in an unrelenting parade of nightmares he struggles to break free from. In the midst of this, he sees his brother John outside the cage, who ignores Rael's cries for help before disappearing as mysteriously as he appeared. With John's disappearance, the cage finally dissolves, leaving Rael spinning like a top until he finds himself in a new environment; a hallway that leads further into his mirror world.

After the nightmarish cage left Rael shaken (and shirtless), he finds himself in a modern hallway. This space leads Rael to the Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging, where he bears witness to the profit-driven inner workings of "The System." In the factory, Rael encounters some familiar faces from his old gang, as well as his brother John, all while looking for a way out of this mirror world and back to his old life in NYC.

With familiar faces from The Grand Parade fresh in his mind, Rael’s mirror world morphs into a reconstruction of his old life in NYC some years before, when his gang was tough, his hair was short, and his chest was heartless. But while the days were spent wreaking glorious havoc on the city, at night Rael nursed the heartbreak that set him on this destructive path…

Rael tumbles further into his memories, to the moment when he cast off his old life for a new, heartless one. As he cuts his hair, he envisions his fluffy heart being shaved smooth by an anonymous steel razor, set to romantic music.

Delving even deeper, he relives the event that sent him down this dark path: the disastrous loss of his virginity, due in part to the poor advice of a seemingly reputable book. All these memories come crashing down, and Rael finds himself back in the present void, the mirror nightmare world, he is stuck in.

As his old memories die off, Rael finds himself in a long carpeted corridor. The scene comes into focus and Rael notices he is not alone, for on the ground are dozens of people crawling in search of some answer. They all seem enamored with a door at the end of the hall, behind which Rael finds even more crawlers, as well as a winding staircase. He takes the stairs upwards to an uncertain fate…

At the top of the stairs Rael find a chamber. It is almost a hemisphere with a great many doors all the way around its circumference. There is a large crowd, huddled in various groups, and from their shouting Rael learns that there are 32 doors, but only one that leads out. He searches for an answer and an exit, but with each attempt he loses a bit of hope. If he's to make his way out, he needs to find someone he can trust first…

Rael has almost lost hope of leaving the Chamber of 32 Doors, when he hears a voice asking for help. It's a blind woman known as Lilywhite Lilith, who offers to show Rael the way out if he leads her through the crowd of people. Rael takes a chance despite the protests of the others in the room, and Lilith leads him out through a door and deep into a new, round cave. She tells him not to be scared as she sits him on a jade throne, then leaves without another word through one of the many tunnels that extend from the cave. Rael grows terrified thinking of what awaits him when two glowing globes float down into the room and expel the darkness with a blaze of white, mysterious light…

As his eyes adjust to the light, Rael finds himself in an empty room, waiting for whatever fate has in store for him. His patience runs thin as time seems to slow to a standstill, but the action he takes to escape the waiting room leads him into even greater danger…

Stuck between a rock and a hard place, literally, Rael thinks he has reached his end, and contemplates his all but assured death. But is this the end, or just another step on his journey deep into his own soul?

Rael gets the chance of a lifetime to meet his hero, Death, who likes to meet new people and wears many costumes. They share a dance before Death disappears, leaving Rael in a long corridor filled with an alluring aroma…

Rael follows the alluring scent through the hallway and into a large chamber that houses a long rose water pool. The walls are adorned with velvet and honeysuckle and there's a light fog in the air. But as he approaches the water he finds he is not alone, as the pool is inhabited by the Lamia, reptilian creatures with the diminutive head and breasts of a beautiful woman. His horror gives way to infatuation as their soft green eyes show their welcome, and soon he follows their siren song into the pool. They knead his flesh until his bones appear to melt, and at a point at which he feels he cannot go beyond, they nibble at his body. Taking in the first drops of his blood, their eyes blacken and their bodies are shaken. Distraught with helpless passion he watches as his lovers die. In a desperate attempt to bring what is left of them into his being, he takes and eats their bodies, and struggles to leave his lovers’ nest. Eventually he encounters a boat, which he pilots out of the chamber as it resets itself in preparation of the next lover to enter its doors.

Rael's odyssey leads him from the lair of the Lamia back to the mirror Manhattan that he seems doomed to die in.

Dejected, Rael wanders the streets of mirror Manhattan until he stumbles upon a group of grotesque figures, walking STDs. They call themselves the Slippermen, and invite Rael to join them. The head one explains that all of them have loved the Lamia, as Rael did, and as such he is destined to join their ranks. Rael finds the transformation has already begun, and to his further terror finds his brother John in the crowd. The Slippermen laugh at the plight of the brothers, telling them that the only cure is to visit the Doktor, who will geld them for a little gold. Rael and John have the procedure and find themselves back to normal. The Doktor puts each specimen into a tube, telling the pair to wear them around their necks and that they can return to him if they even need temporary use of the items again. The sky begins to darken and suddenly a huge raven descends, making a bee line for Rael's tube. Before he knows it, the bird has snatched the tube from around his neck and flown off. Rael goes to chase after the bird, imploring John to join. John refuses and goes in the other direction as Rael runs to catch the thief. He follows the bird through the city until they reach a cliff, overlooking a deep ravine. The bird promptly drops the tube into the water below and Rael is left to curse to himself as he watched his item slowly drift away.

Rael walks along the edge of the ravine.

Rael continues to walk until he notices something odd in the rock bank above his head. He sees a window open up, much like the one he fell through into this mirror world, and through it he can see and hear his old life in Manhattan. Rael is overjoyed to see this way out from his nightmare and makes for the window, but as he is getting near he hears a scream from the ravine and goes to investigate. In the water below he sees his brother John struggling to survive, getting pulled downstream by rough rapids. Rael is forced to choose whether to take the window (which is fast closing) back to his old life or go save John and risk never leaving this place. He chooses John, and as the window disappears he begins his descent down the steep cliff.

Rael struggles to make it down the cliff, fearful that he will get to John too late. His movements cause a scree of rocks and boulders to fall like an avalanche, and after a while Rael finds himself able to ride the scree further down the cliff. Still, he realizes that the only way to reach John is to take a leap of faith, and so he dives from high up above into the water below.

Rael tries to catch up to John, but keeps coming up short. With his energy failing, he dives deep underwater and is able to get ahead of John, finally reaching out to grab his brother as the rapids take them both out from the ravine. Eventually the waters slow down and they arrive at a shore, with Rael carrying his brother onto land to make sure he is okay. As Rael looks over his brother John, he finds to his horror that the face he sees is his own, and as he feels himself flying between both bodies, the whole world seems to dissolve around him. Rael sees a flurry of imagery and people and places and realizes that they are all part of the same spirit, his spirit. The spirit of rock and roll, of rebellion and selling out, of self destruction and healing, of beautiful music and caustic noise, the spirit of it.

Rael is it and it is all around us.