When a strange old recluse is arrested for a local teenager’s disappearance, fourteen year old Jeff Averon learns this is not the first time someone went missing from the mysterious Old Town Theater. When Jeff realizes it is his old friend Brent Clarkson who is missing, he sets off with three friends to search the abandoned theater where they make an astonishing discovery: as the stage comes to life, props transform and a painted backdrop reveals a portal to another world.

Crossing over into an enchanted land they soon learn that they alone can defeat Dark Forces that threaten not only the Otherworld but their world as well.