In the episode, the Ghostmaker (Julian Bleach), the leader of a travelling show, breaks out of the celluloid film he is trapped inside, and steals the last breaths of nearby residents in Cardiff to use as his audience.

Two figures from the film, the troupe's leader the Ghostmaker and a woman called Pearl, step out of the projection screen and become real, disappearing into the streets of Cardiff.

This story is corroborated by Christina, an old woman at a nursing home who witnessed the Night Travellers take her family away, and said that they came "from out of the rain".

Meanwhile, the Ghostmaker and Pearl prey on innocent victims, drawing their last breath into a silver flask, and leaving them with no saliva or tears, and close to death.

The Ghostmaker releases more of his companions from the film to regain their audience and begin travelling again like the old days.