Paranormal novelist Gideon Harlax is drawn into a battle between the forces of good, represented by alien angel Helith, and the forces of evil, represented by Helith's evil brother Asrael. Ranging from Oxford to Denmark, a North Sea ferry to an alien planet, Harlax unwittingly becomes part of an ancient plot that may result in the destruction of Earth...

Hywel Bennett
as Gideon Harlax

Dinah Stabb
as Gwen Meredith

Dan O'Herlihy
as Albrecht Von Drachenfels

Sting
as Helith

Anthony Steel
as Tristram Guise

Roland Curram
as Asrael

Ian Redford
as Jed Thaxter

Ingrid Pitt
as Hitchcock Blonde

Daniel Day-Lewis
as Library Student

Margaret Whiting
as Laura Guise