Alice is growing up in a grey world of old bombsites in post-war London. It's a tough life made harder by her difficult step-dad, though her imagination has always offered escape. When Alice meets Reggie it seems that together, they can do extraordinary things. But what is their story, and how will it end? Living in post-war London, Twelve-year-old Alice often escapes into her imagination. But when a new boy called Reggie starts school, her mind begins playing tricks on her. She seems oddly drawn to him and whenever they are together the world becomes a more exciting and colourful place, where imagination appears to becomes real .