Stan has had a dream since childhood where he runs down a dark corridor surrounded by vacant, black, and eerie buildings on both sides. There is a light far away at the end, but there is something behind it, very close to him, getting ever closer until he wakes up trembling and never reaches the light. Thus, Stan's life, with his complex and troubled personality, becomes full of dark labyrinths. After arriving at the "Circus" to see the obsessed man locked inside a cage, controlled by alcoholism, he begins his exhausting journey with mind reading and tarot cards... a journey with love, betrayal, and deception, living between truth and lies. The alley of nightmares that William Lindsay Gresham leads us to is not only one of the aspects of societal corruption, but also man's attempts to play the cards of fate.