'It was a star-spangled night where the frosted heavens glittered with promise; one of those rare, magical evenings when it seemed that anything might be possible.' Paul is a 10 year old boy living on a farm in Wales. When a door suddenly appears in his bedroom, he walks through and is mysteriously transported into a world 1,000 years in the future. Before he can return to his home he has to fulfil a quest to rescue prisoners being held by the evil lord Elevion. He receives some help from a new friend, a talking horse and a magnificent eagle.