A hijacked jumbo jet blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures, Gibreel and Saladin, are washed up on an English Channel. Two figures, Gibreel and Saladin, are washed up on an English beach. Soon curious changes occur - Gibreel seems to have acquired a halo, while Saladin grows hooves and bumps at his temples. They are transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is the inital act in an odyssey that merges the actual with the imagined.