Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Ho
ffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's dau
ghter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to h
im in his dreams. Meeting on his adventures a host of cannibals, centaurs and ac
robats, Desiderio must battle against unreality and the warping of time and spac
e to be with her, as the Doctor reduces Desiderio's city to a chaotic state of e
mergency - one ridden with madness, crime and sexual excess. A satirical tale of
magic and sex, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman is a dazzling que
st for truth, love and identity.
