Dorlief

It all begins with Daniel Bertridge, a university student, chancing upon an exhibition of a mysterious artist, Felix Thornton, on the first day of his vacation. The eerie world presented in the pictures, something evasive yet familiar, draws the young man, captures his soul. He realizes his whole life has been split in half: one half - before Thornton's pictures, and the other - afterward. Christine Willis, eager to help her friend, starts amassing information on the artist of genius. It turns out that he was involved in Daniel's grandfather's death somehow. Before he died, Daniel's grandfather had given his grandson a wad of paper and asked him not to unravel it, not to look inside, not to show it to anyone, and not to tell anyone about it. Daniel learns what is inside the wad eight years later. The eerie thing with its weird properties takes Dan and Mat (Christine too, later on) into a World that is beyond the borderline of accessibility, a World at once incredibly far-off and quite close-by. Two guys carry to a placeless place the Sacred Word that according to the prophecy could help people to overpower those who would settle in the Emptied Lake. In the usual world, there's love and tragedy in store for Dan. In the other, an inquiry that might result in a dreadful verdict - execution. His fate hinges on his friends and enemies in the midst of a fierce battle.