Dreams are full of strange people. Wendell wants rid of his and seeks counselling, but his counsellor turns out to have his own agenda.
Disturbed by the strange people who invade his dreams, Wendell seeks the assistance of a counsellor, Milton, to eject them. Genuine counselling should encourage Wendell to find his own route through life, but Milton is a man with his own mission, so it does not proceed as it should. For Milton, Science is the key to all knowledge, and the aim of life is to succeed in material terms. Thus he latches onto Wendell’s problems as an opportunity to revamp the old theories of Freud and Jung and advance his career.
As the sessions proceed, with the usual ebb and flow between client and counsellor, Milton suggests that the intruders are telling Wendell he should aspire to material success; while Wendell challenges Milton’s faith in Science. What is scientific about his theories? Whose reality holds good? In time Wendell finds greater relief from the natural world of trees and also realises that some of the dream folk are more positive than Milton. Could they be the ancestors come to advise him on the way forward? As dreams and reality become entangled, he comes to suspect that Milton’s is trying to steal something away from him. His secret to life?