In book one of the Dreamed Awake series, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa offers training in the art of mystical dreaming to a young man who is about to have his entire world turned upside down. Our hero soon finds that his great-grandfather was also a master dreamer and that he has been groomed in the art of dreaming under dire circumstances. All of the mystical wisdom in all of the many dream realms of existence is being systematically destroyed and in order to save it, a band of dreamers must set aside old differences and unite to battle unseen forces of darkness.