Why not colour sheep a luminous orange so that they can't be lost in snowdrifts? Or improve bus services by giving every passenger a steering wheel? Ideas tested past destruction by DREADCO, the private research corporation imagined by Dr David Jones , writing under the name of DAEDALUS, and converted to reality by Q.E.D. in this all-expense-spared bio-pic. Yet nearly one in five of Daedalus' mind-fusing inventions comes true, one way or another. See David Jones 's amazing perpetual motion machines. Wonder why the boat floats in an empty tank. Discover how Napoleon was poisoned by his own wallpaper. Just what is David Jones up to?