La 4e de couverture indique:"It began when a stranger walked into the small town. A man whose face was always in shadows, always turned away from an inquiring gaze. A face that seemed to shimmer and change. A face of multi-faced irridescence. Nobody in the town took much notice of the stranger with his odd fluid walk. People minded their own business. Until... Until the power that held the figure together began to weaken its impossible hold. And the strange man began to lose his shape. Began to split into an infinity of parts!"