In which bedlam threatens to envelope the world, unless Oscar Teabag-Dooven can do something about it, which he's willing to consider, providing it involves an enormous breakfast first. When the palace of Arabesque's aide d'camp, a cat named the Tremblees, stumbles upon a translation of an ancient language revealing the existence of a fabled stone, he vows to find it for reasons of greed and vengeance. With a dead dog stuck to a car bonnet, some burst luggage, a blind bus driver and an enormous number of olives, it becomes a race for Oscar, his colleague Meesha and the Tieress of Arabesque to prevent the Tremblees plunging Arabesque back into the Era of Bedlam, a horror that plagued the land a thousand years ago.