Fourteen-year-old TJ moves with her parents and brother to a new house on the outskirts of a big city. The girl doesn’t really like her new place: she hasn’t managed to find friends here yet. And then TJ has a friend - a tiny girl 15 centimeters tall! Her name is Elizabeth, and she ran away from her family of little ones. Her parents are terribly afraid that someone will find out about the existence of their tribe. But rebellious Elizabeth is not like that! She fearlessly agrees to go in her new friend's backpack in search of the writer Cheri Piper, who knows the main secrets of the little ones. However, at the very beginning of the journey, something terrible unexpectedly happens, unlike anything in a fairy tale...