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A hijacked plane explodes high above the English Channel. Two survivors fall into the sea: Gibrel Farishta, a legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man with a thousand voices, self-taught and furious Anglophile. They manage to reach an English beach and notice some strange changes: one has acquired a halo and the other sees in horror how the hair on his legs grows, his feet turn into hooves and his temples bulge...