A fourteen-year-old boy finds himself in thick fog on his way to school. A voice calls out, "Come here, we need to talk." It is a strange figure that calls: as magical as Merlin, as wise as Socrates, as peaceful as Buddha. Baba, the old man, has appeared to change the boy's life. "You are now old enough to learn important things," Baba says mysteriously. "And who better to teach you than me?" Baba gives the boy a four-day soul training. It becomes a time of riddles, tips, and tricks, filled with hours of parables and fantastic thought experiments that lead to surprising insights.