When Elliot Winter was seven he learned to escape. With a simple tug of a leaf he is transported to an unexplainable reality that invites him to find what he most desires—friends, a caring family—but leaves him returning home bloody, tattered and scared.
Living with his mother—a cantankerous woman named Marilyn—in the old Victorian on the hill, every opportunity Elliot had to run away, he did. Unable to contain him, he is kept in his room under lock and key.
By Marilyn’s request, the school psychiatrist, an accomplished neuroscientist named Dr. Raymond Eschermann, sees to it that Elliot never tries to escape again. As the regimen of medication and therapy kick in, his world begins to crumble.
After witnessing his father, Sam, almost get killed by a suspicious card player, Elliot is stripped of his old home and his mother in favor of a foster family better suited to care for him. It seems Dr. Eschermann’s plans will unfurl unhindered until a mysterious gift arrives and reawakens Elliot to the truth of his world.
If he is going to escape, it must be now.
Something, or somewhere, is waiting for him on the other side.
When Elliot Winter was seven he learned to escape. With a simple tug of a leaf he is transported to an unexplainable reality that invites him to find what he most desires—friends, a caring family—but leaves him returning home bloody, tattered and scared.
Living with his mother—a cantankerous woman named Marilyn—in the old Victorian on the hill, every opportunity Elliot had to run away, he did. Unable to contain him, he is kept in his room under lock and key.
By Marilyn’s request, the school psychiatrist, an accomplished neuroscientist named Dr. Raymond Eschermann, sees to it that Elliot never tries to escape again. As the regimen of medication and therapy kick in, his world begins to crumble.
After witnessing his father, Sam, almost get killed by a suspicious card player, Elliot is stripped of his old home and his mother in favor of a foster family better suited to care for him. It seems Dr. Eschermann’s plans will unfurl unhindered until a mysterious gift arrives and reawakens Elliot to the truth of his world.
If he is going to escape, it must be now.
Something, or somewhere, is waiting for him on the other side.