The story of a boy and his hallucinations as they journey into the mind of an old man who is dreaming the world.

In search of a cure for the poison that is slowly killing him, Riggs Bombay, the boy who is not afraid of one single thing, sets off in a lung-shaped airship, his toxic hallucinations in tow. While navigating through physical, mental, and spiritual realms, Riggs discovers a most peculiar book, which drives his quest to the farthest reaches of the universe. There, despite the efforts of power-hungry scoundrels, eccentric philosophers, insatiable spirits, and creepy old men, Riggs must deliver the book into the hands of the one person who wants absolutely nothing to do with it!

This "fairy-tales for adults" begins in a world learning to cope without eternal youth, and ends in the ancient mind of Periphery Stowe himself. Spiritual agencies, intent on keeping death right where it belongs, pursue Riggs and his four lovable hallucinations through space and time as he attempts to deliver Stowe's old storybook to the ultimate source of this twisted and endearing universe.