When Dereck Dillinger is swept away into a mystical world after his little sister, Jessie, mysteriously disappears at the carnival he is faced with many challenges in his quest to rescue her. He interacts with familiar story book and nursery rhyme characters and has to figure out the right answer to a riddle in order to evoke the magic of the crystal ball that is the key to finding their way home. Betrayed at every turn by those who claim to be his friends how can he ever hope to succeed?