Toy inventor Nicolas meets widowed ornithologist Ingrid and her son Raul on a plane. Not long after his encounter, Nicolas and Ingrid are married and living an idyllic existence in a beautiful old house in the Catalan countryside. The imaginative Nicolas tells Raul stories about the enchanted world of fairies as they explore their neighbouring forest, blurring the line between reality and fiction. One day Raul chances upon a woman in the forest - could she be the fairy he's been seeking?