Two friends with a passion for machines of antiquity, discover a strange apparatus in the Athens flea market. It consists of a metal hemisphere and, according to its seller, it as found on the island of Patmos, a relic from a New Age community that once lived there. It is Sunday, just like in the Book of Revelation, when St. John had his famous apocryphal vision in Patmos...
Taking it hastily back to their make shift "lab", they begin to experiment in understanding its function. The Machine has come with three disks whose information they are trying to decipher. After many failed attempts, they begin to suspect that the Machine might be coming from another dimension; indeed that it maybe a subjective machine, whose function depends on its user’s inner desires.

Gradually, as they allow themselves to be absorbed into the Machine’s influence, they are enveloped by strange apparitions. They fall into lucid dream states and enter a dark     

world, a familiar and yet distorted version of modern society. They follow the adventures of Nick, an insomniac resident of a city called Necropolis...

Necropolis is situated somewhere in the northern hemisphere. Theosophus Lebab is a mysterious, semi-god being who rules the air waves through his media empire. Most importantly, he controls the production of orgone - a new energy form based on the utilisation of bio-energy. His Lebab Tower, stupendous skyscraper, is the landmark of Necropolis. Elsewhere around the globe anarchy prevails. Governments are unable to establish law and order. Subsaharan countries are  run by armed gangs who trade "orgonoliths" (orgone stones), the fuel of orgone generators.

Only in a string of remote islands on the Pacific Ocean there seems to be some token of tranquillity. There, colonisation has taken place by a secret society of Gnostics and Magicians, deniers of modern technology. They call themselves the "Lands Without"...