|summary=Even amongst the travelling fraternity of the Vaudeville, Silenus' troupe are strange, secretive and surrounded my mystery. Yet George, a sixteen-year-old pianist sets out to join them, at first because he believes the leader, Silenus, is his father, but very quickly after because the secrets he uncovers means he himself is tied to the troupe in ways he could not have imagined, and everyone is in danger.