Based on the 300-year old ballad of the same, the story is of a beguiling lover who entices a sequence of girls to their deaths that is until he meets Lady Isobel, a maiden in waiting for the love and revenge.

A Clockmaker is entrusted to care for a world that runs like clockwork. But when his heart gets broken, he rages against time itself only to discover that unless he finds a cure for a broken heart, everything will end. The clockmaker tries desperately to find a cure in all matter of new creations.

A surveyor clerk trespasses an ancient fairy forest, as an old mythology transforms for a modern world.