The picture tells about a small boy named Max, which in punishment for pranks is locked in the bedroom. Fighting with boredom, he begins to fantasize and suddenly understands that the room disappeared somewhere. Instead, Max turns out to be in a small boat that the waves nail to an unknown coast. The country in which he was found to the hero, inhabited by strange creatures, which Max is able to pacify in one glance despite their terrible appearance. The monsters decide that the boy is the strangest creation of seen by them, and proclaim it with his king. But one day, Max is mastered the longing of the house and wakes up the desire to return to where it is like to really.
This fairy tale was tortured to animate several times, but the director felt that this story should be a versatile film. "It seems to me when I was a kid, I did not imagine this fairy tale like a cartoon. I represented this world are real. I never thought that this film was children. My idea was as follows - to feel the 9-year-old boy again. "