The screenwriter and noted film critic makes his fiction DEBUT with this brilliantly crafted modern tale that charts the lives of two boys, from their star-crossed childhood in a realm of magic and mystery to their anguished adulthood. There is another world than our own, as close and intimate as a kiss, as terrifying and haunting as nightmares, a realm where fairies and djinns, changelings and angels all the stuff of which dreams are made is real - and where magic awaits in the shadows, just a hidden step away. Between this realm and that other lies a veil, a gossamer web that muddles the vision of mortal man and keeps him from seeing what is all around him.