Billy Bowen is a devilishly strange little boy and has learned early on that he doesn’t quite fit in. Whilst marking the one day of the year that a person celebrates entering into a world that hasn’t yet asked them to leave – his birthday – Billy wanders off from his family and stumbles upon an old abandoned well. When the crumbling well suddenly gives way Billy is thrust into a strange new land … and his family is nowhere to be seen.
Soon he meets Thistledoo, a bumbling old man, who informs Billy that he must seek out a certain Baron Von Helmholtz – the only one able to help Billy get back to his family.
But it won’t be an easy task, and in order to reach Helmholtz, Billy must first face the dreaded monster of monsters, the ogre of ogres … the keeper of the cane fields.
And so Billy sets out on a journey across a mysterious and foreign land – one that he soon finds challenges the rules of logic and common sense that he had previously always relied upon.
