The air of Manchester is alive with blurb flies, automated advertisements chanting their slogans. The loudest of all is for Domino Bones, the new lottery game. Every Friday night, Manchester stills as the bones tumble into a winning combination, the population hooked on this rampant dream. But there is only one real winner, The Company, who play the city’s fragile expectations with callous ease and milks it to the final drop. A group of mathematics students are looking at the odds, at the mind-numbing probabilities involved, and searching for the hidden mysteries behind the game. They watch the city at work and at dangerous play, and slowly uncover the sinister realities behind the mania. The Company is devouring Manchester – it has the nymphomation, an evolutionary process which has the power to take over the city’s dreams…
