Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real sacrifice.
The main characters are a woman and her son who live happily till the moment when strange things begin to occur with the boy. Parts of him start to disappear but he keeps it from his mother. In the end the truth comes out, but it is too late. The woman begins to suspect that all events are connected with the mysterious lollipop her son could not live without.
