In this Kafkaesque, escapist, adventure story, Joseph K, a young lawyer, arrives at the mysterious and perplexing Postlethwaite Estate - a world unto itself, governed by ancient traditions and a host of eccentric and comic characters. K must learn to navigate this world, with help from many allies along the way, at the same time bridging that widening cleft between adolescence and adulthood that characterises his own uneasy position in life.