In a world overtaken by eternal darkness the buttoned down entomologist abandons his phantoms to embrace the unknown. Oscar is a conservator at the Natural Science Museum and spends most of his days surrounded by bugs. When Oscar isn't tending to the tiny specimens that line his home and workplace he can frequently be found reflecting on his childhood traumas in the psychiatrist's office. One day Oscar returns home from work to find an African woman from the museum lying in his bed.