A con man who senses people's deepest fears must face a deadly monster holding souls captive in a plague-stricken town. Escher, a wandering Romani, can precisely sense what every individual is afraid of - no matter how small or suppressed. Although not magic, it's certainly a useful and exploitative trick for a con man. That is until he is mistaken for a spiritualist medium and becomes entangled with Isla, an enigmatic woman possessed by a monster called the Keroax - which holds the souls of cremated people hostage in the plague-stricken town of Pathyem.