Manchester, now. Michael works at an employment center and drinks at a bar. The result of a chance encounter with Lee, an introduction to her Uncle Ian, and a night on the lash? A job in a Northern Quarter massage parlor. As a result of witnessing a brutal murder, Michael has flashbacks and is dragged into an unexplained, yet seductive, twilight realm. Michaels' life will be changed forever if he discovers what is going on in the room below Cloud 9.