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Paranormal novelist Gideon Harlax is drawn into a battle between the forces of good, represented by alien angel Helith, and the forces of evil, represented by Heliths evil brother Asrael. Ranging from Oxford to Denmark, a North Sea ferry to an alien planet, Harlax unwittingly becomes part of an ancient plot that may result in the destruction of Earth...
In the alien planet Artemis 8 1 with its two suns, Magog (), the mother-goddess, is awakened from her endless sleep. Magogs two sons Helith (), the white angel, and Asrael (), the black angel, are fighting for the control of the Earth. Asrael leads the master organist Drachenfels () to steal a delicate image of Magog from a Danish museum, and to hide its five broken pieces in as much luggage of unwise passengers of the ocean-ferry back to England. Drachenfels is to write and perform a certain organ piece, so powerful as to break yet another image of Magog aka Sheela na Gig, hidden in a high arch of an Anglican minster - a remnant of the old religion hidden within the new. From the images womb, a glass vase will fall and break, delivering a poison so powerful as to bring about the End of Times. Helith will try to prevent the ultimate end by getting the pulp novelist Gideon Harlax (Hywel Bennett), a human writer, interested in the mysterious deaths of people with nothing in common but having traveled the same day on the ocean ferry from Denmark. Harlaxs quest for truth involves his relationship with the musician Gwen Meredith () and the film scholar Jed Thaxter () - and his own bi-sexual identity. By coincidence (the film rightly hints it does not exist) both call on Gideon, and leave messages in his recording machine. In different ways, the worlds and the knowledge (gnosis) of Gwen and Jed - organ music composition and film making - are (in part) revealed to Gideon, after his initiation into code breaking by a History scholar. Gideon descends to hell after his visit to Hells Mouth, guided and protected by Helith: a barren land of apparent normality, but where everybody seems to be acutely sick, and speaking a foreign language backwards. Gideon delivers Gwen from the hellish underworld, but not so Jed, who perishes when Gideon kisses him. At last, running against time, controlled to the minute in a Christmas concert from a minster, transmitted live by the BBC, Gideon must stop Drachenfels from playing the end music. It is revealed that Drachenfeld, yet a Faustian character, has been dealing with Asrael to postpone the end of his composition, in a trade-off for Asrael to keep both him and his lover alive since times immemorial.
Hywel Bennett
Gideon Harlax
Dinah Stabb
Gwen Meredith
Dan O'Herlihy
Albrecht Von Drachenfels
Sting
Helith
Anthony Steel
Tristram Guise
Roland Curram
Asrael
Margaret Whiting
Laura Guise
Ian Redford
Jed Thaxter
Mary Ellen Ray
Sonia
Cornelius Garrett
Pastor
Siv Borg
Pastor's Wife
Frode Berg
Pastor's Son
Ingrid Pitt
Hitchcock Blonde
Daniel Day-Lewis
Library Student
Sylvia Coleridge
Library Scholar
Sevilla Delofski
Magog
Patricia Gallimore
Nurse
Eleanor Forsythe
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