On a freezing winter night, Karl enters the White Horse Tavern in despair—he’s failed to complete the clock figure for Glockenheim, and the unveiling is tomorrow.
At the same time, Fritz begins reading his unfinished spooky tale, Clockwork, hoping the ending will come as he speaks.
But as the snow falls, fiction and reality blur, and events begin to unfold with a dark precision that no one can control…