In order to investigate the death of a friend, a young reporter enters a world between dreams and reality.
Welcome to Fairwater, the Venice of Maryland, with its darks canals and stone bridges. Gloria, a reporter from Washington, winds up in this town with its cast of strange characters in order to attend the funeral of her friend, Marvin. Marvin, she is told, lived in a dream world full of fantasy creatures and eventually took his own life. Gloria’s professional curiosity is awakened when his body is not found. She probes further and further into the secrets of Fairwater and in doing so has to confront forces whose existence she would never have believed in a few days earlier.
