A small, quiet town on the coast. A town where very strange things happen in cozy streets and ancient houses. Sculptures move in an abandoned garden. The clock hands sometimes begin to measure time backwards. During storms, sunken ships float up. And the long-dead magician from the traveling circus returns... The inhabitants stubbornly do not notice what is happening... or pretend that they do not notice? And only the boy Max, whose family moved to the town quite recently, begins to ask questions - and takes seriously the legend told by the eccentric lighthouse keeper. The legend of the mysterious, ruthless and powerful Lord of the Mist, who has reigned supreme over these lands for centuries...