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The main character, Dick Young, a middle-aged Londoner in a marital crisis, spends his summers at the old Kilmarth House on the Cornish coast (The House on the Shore), lent to him by his friend, neuroscientist Professor Magnus Lane. Magnus has created an experimental hallucinogenic drug that allows the user to "travel" back in time - to be precise, to the 14th century (around 1320–1330), during the reign of King Edward II, in the same region. Dick, under the influence of the drug, becomes an invisible observer of the life of a medieval community: he follows the noble family of Champernoune, their love affair between Isolde Carminowe and Sir Roger Kestel, political intrigue, plague and peasant revolts. However, he cannot intervene - he only watches, like a ghost. With each "trip", Dick becomes more and more emotionally attached to the characters from the past (especially Roger), while in the present he becomes disconnected from reality: he neglects his wife Vita, quarrels with his friends, becomes addicted to drugs.