Orlando is dying Resigned to his fate all he wants is to be left alone with his alcohol drugs and hermit crab But his hopes of solitude are shattered when he is woken by JeanLuc an incessantly chatty Frenchman who happens to be a voice in his head Now in addition to cancer Orlando must deal with JeanLucs neverending questions and commentary as well as the discovery that JeanLuc is slowly taking over every sense of his body sight hearing taste smell touch