Alice is trapped in a world she hates: the world of the Real. Her father beats her. Her mother is dead. And Alice is alone, save for her best friend, Taylor. But Taylor doesn’t see her the way she wants to be seen. One day, Taylor kills himself. Left adrift and growing increasingly depressed, Alice slips and falls into the same thing that took Taylor’s life: Dottie’s Pond, the place no one is allowed to go. But instead of dying, Alice emerges in a fantasy land full of water and magic. There her memories emerge to haunt her, and mysterious paintings of Taylor adorn the palace walls.