On a warm summer day, sitting on a riverbank, Alice is bored and drowsy. Following a talking White Rabbit, she falls a long way down a rabbit hole only to find herself in a dreamlike fantasy world. Running into some of the most entertaining characters in English literature - The White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Mock Turtle, the Cheshire Cat, and the King and Queen of Hearts - and being variously mistaken for a housemaid, a serpent, a volcano, a flower and a monster, all in the breath of a single afternoon, Alice is left intrigued and bewildered in equal measure.