A well-educated psychiatrist (Eckhart) leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father (Nolte), a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children's book. Acclimating to his position, he encounters a schizophrenic (McKellen) who helps him to discover the book's secrets and his place in the story.
「Stories are living things given to turns unpredictable.」「Sometimes a story finds the storyteller. Not the other way around.」「Can you tell me what it is about Neverwas that attracts you? → Its where...