"He wrote in his own blood for Tallulah to tear down our big clock." Noir is a city protected from hardship by the attentive gaze of its great keeper of time, a gigantic clock tower perched high in the mountains. Tallulah, a young girl born into opulence and safety, befriends a strange, wise man who warns her of the clock's wicked past-and future. At odds with the traditions of her home, Tallulah follows a secret map on a perilous quest...