Seventeen-year-old Alice spent almost her entire life on the road: as if an evil fate was pursuing her and her mother, forcing her to look for a new home over and over again. The news of the death of her grandmother, Althea Proserpina, who had never seen her granddaughter, upsets the girl, and at the same time gives hope: the Walnut Forest estate, inherited by her mother Ella, may become for them not a temporary refuge, but a real home. But Alice’s hopes Not destined to come true: someone kidnaps Ella while her daughter is at school. In search of the only person dear to her, Alice will have to rediscover old fairy tales and herself, and also ignore her mother’s last words: “STAY AWAY FROM THE WALNUT FOREST!”