20-year-old Sarah has just embarked on her working life when she discovers she is six months pregnant. She does not want to have a child, not just yet. But the idea of terminating the pregnancy is not one she can contemplate lightly. And so she is torn between conflicting desires - her natural maternal instincts and her need to live the life of an independent woman that she has always longed for..

Every evening, a girl, a boy and an old technician get together in a small movie theater. Although the theater no longer seems to be operating, it is full of wonders. The three friends invent, draw, dress up and become characters in any story they feel like telling during one magical night when everything is possible. There are witches and fairies, powerful kings and stable boys, werewolves and beautiful, cruel ladies, cathedrals and sequins, cities of gold and dark forests, harmonies of vast choirs and the spells of a single drum, devastating malice and triumphant innocence.