A shy young boy forced to deal with the death of his best friend. When a young boy finds his best friend, an 80-year-old man, dead, he uses his love of science to try and keep him alive.

A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.

The once-reknowned escape-artist and magician, Kandinsky, is now reduced to confounding the staff and inmates of his retirement home.