When a little boy running away from home rescues a girl trapped under Emperor Margaret, a forest squid, the boy and girl join forces and venture deeper and deeper into the woods. The girl seems to know more than she lets on and coerces the boy into following her as she collects mysterious word cards, chats with an odd bird and leads the boy underground to the lair of The Listener, a skull headed organist. Using the boy as bait she must decide if she’ll leave him to a cruel fate or try to save him and risk losing everything she’s worked so hard to get.