Unicorns, dragons, sprites, will-o\'-the-wisps: the inhabitants of an enchanted world.
Bastian takes up the challenge, and finds himself crossing the Swamps of Sadness and the Silver Mountains, meeting sorcerers and giants, bats and night-hobs, gnomes.
Only a real human being can set things right by giving the Empress a new name.
But Fantastica is slowly decaying, its Childlike Empress dying.
And into this world - through the pages of an old book - ventures Bastian, a lonely boy of ten or twelve.
Unicorns, dragons, sprites, will-o\'-the-wisps: the inhabitants of an enchanted world