Once upon a time; in a room above a German museum; there lived an old man . . . A caretaker by day; by night he enjoys the sound of silence; broken only by the occasional crunch of a spider between his teeth. However; the old man's solitude is disturbed as unusual activities at the museum start to attract attention. A pair of young and outrageously beautiful lovers; a baker's son with a passion for the euphonium; and a dog called Hans are just some of the innocents pulled into Rhodes's mesmerising world.