Wiske's curiosity brings our friends into a cave where they meet three torments who have been imprisoned for 1,500 years. Although Jerom thinks he has overcome the three devils, they are not rid of them! They strike Barabas unconscious, who falls on the teletijdmachine and the torments are flashed back to their own time! Jerom goes after them to save the Nervians from the three bullies. That does not seem so easy. There is nothing left for Jerom than to get involved in the life of the Nervians and he falls in love with the fairy Libelildis ...