In this final part of the trilogy, we follow Titus, now almost twenty, as
he escapes from the Castle, flees its oppressive Ritual, and becomes lost
in a sandstorm. Helped by the owner of a travelling zoo, Muzzlehatch, and
his ex-lover Juno, Titus ends up stranded in a big, bustling city. No one
there having heard of Gormenghast, the general consensus is that the boy is
deranged, and with no papers, he's soon arrested for vagrancy. But there
are a few people who believe in his story, or at least who are intrigued by
it, and they try to help him. And now Titus, the deserter, the traitor,
longs for his home, and looks for it all the time to prove, if only to
himself, that Gormenghast is truly real.