A surreal journey through the depths of a madman's mind, as a mysterious female visitor torments him with strange tales about ... a crafty shoeshine boy with a unique way of drumming up business, a fast-talking professor who hates marching bands, a pirate who digs up an astonishing treasure chest and then throws away the priceless contents, a young lady who enters a forbidden room in a gloomy mansion and discovers an incredibly detailed dollhouse with a deadly secret, and Cleopatra, whose passionate poetry inflames Marc Antony, with disastrous consequences.