The Circle

The year is 1900. 

An Earl, an engineer, a suburban philosopher, and an enigma meet at University and make a pact to learn the art of conjuring. 

But nothing among the friends is quite as it seems, and soon the happy four are plunged into worlds of political activism, crime, despair, sordid trysts, and a Faustian compact which seems set to threaten their very lives, one by one...