Tage Stjarna is his little sister's story-telling, game-inventing, nightmare-defeating hero. Tage's little sister, Mia, is the central sunshine of his world. Their neglecting parents' miserable apartment is behind them. Now they are free to live their fantasy-filled life in a leaky trailer with a bug zapper for a chandelier and a rescued horse for the family pet. Until the day their happily-ever-after-on-a-shoestring suddenly crumbles with a single phone call. When the real-life source of Mia's many nightmares threatens to separate them, Tage is willing to do anything to keep them together. Leaving everything behind and becoming homeless runaways, the siblings are prepared for hardships, hunger, and isolation; but they couldn't possibly be prepared for where an unexplainable cloud of mysterious lights is going to lead them.