 Eva lives in the sinister Tower with her father, a mad inventor, and her grandfather. The aviator Wilfred Durian and his lovely wife live nearby in the town. But Durian s famous flight across the Australian desert was not all it seems... and when his  dead  partner Arved Holl is rescued by Eva and comes to claim his former fiancée s hand, the whole house of cards is about to come tumbling down. Meanwhile, Eva s own family history is not quite as she had always believed...