Helena lives in a circus with her parents. She is tired of this kind of mobile life, this kind of awkward life of playing a clown with a mask all day long and becoming the object of being laughed at. The life she asks for is just right. Our ordinary children's desires are the opposite: there is nothing to worry about, everything is normal, and we carry schoolbags to school every day without worrying about what's going on.
When her mother came to urge her to change clothes to perform, Helena and her mother quarreled: She should not be treated as an idiot like this, and she should not suffer for her parents’ dreams, she should enter a real life. Mom was so angry that you were going to piss me off, but Helena turned back and said that I really hope so. My mother fainted when she stepped down to change clothes and was taken to the hospital. The operation was about to be performed. The circus was suspended due to lack of mother and was facing bankruptcy. Helena was in pain. She felt that all of this was caused by herself. She killed her mother and destroyed her father's dream.
On the eve of the mother's operation, there was thunder and lightning outside, and Helena fell asleep with melancholy and nightmares. Suddenly she heard a faint sound of the piano, and she got up and followed the sound to go out. At a corner, she saw a violinist who looked like her friend playing with a mask, and two jugglers were rehearsing with masks. The juggler asked her to be a volunteer. At this moment, darkness flooded in, and the violinist became stiff in an instant, and then another juggler was swallowed. Helena and Valentine, the clown with a mask, fled into a storage room or book room. A cat with a human face and wings appeared, grinning. Valentine the clown asked her to throw a book to it, and took the opportunity to open a door, but unexpectedly there was a cliff outside the door. He had the idea to teach Helena to reprimand a book, and the disgusted book floated: once If they were disliked, they would float back to the library, and Helena and Valentine the clown stepped on the books like jumping on a skateboard and escaped safely from the dark place. But the next situation is even more bizarre and even fantastic. Fish swimming freely in the air, strange residents, guards on stilts, talking chickens, all these can only appear in dreams, and dreams It is always developing, and there are always various plots advancing.
Guess what happened next?
After being caught in the palace, Helena learned that the city of light was about to be destroyed by darkness. A girl who looked the same as her took away the charm of the city of light and broke the balance between darkness and light, and the queen fell into a deep sleep. The city is facing destruction. Looking at the sleeping queen, Helena thinks of her mother. She decides to do something hard. This is her own dream. She will not be afraid of hardships and find a spell for the queen.
Valentine the clown is not brave and greedy for money. They went to the library and used a net to enclose a story book. The girl in the story seemed to experience Helena's own story. There is also a book that automatically found Helena and gave her many useful tips, such as remembering what her mother said; looking out the window. Helena understood the location of the spell, but the darkness attacked again. Don't destroy the hanging giant. Fortunately, they threw the key to Helena. Cats with human faces but wings have been blocking their progress. With the help of the hints and self-sacrifice of that useful book, they managed to get rid of the entanglement. With the help of a brave gorilla with a hen-face but flying, Helena not only escaped the capture of the darkness, but also flew to the boundary between night and day in the city. Looking through the window, she saw A girl who looked similar to her was arguing with her dad in her bedroom and fooling around with a circus bastard.
The dream country on the border is a gathering place for all people's dreams and desires, as well as memories. Here, we often regard our hopes as reality. In this familiar picture, my mother met Helena in a dream. She encouraged Helena not to give up, not to be afraid, and to continue searching. Helena said, since this is my dream, I will build a small house in the center of the lake, and a small bridge will lead to it there. Ha, everything went as she wished. She crossed the bridge and saw a white dreamy dome hut. Entering the house, they saw a round tower built with various locks. Helena excitedly handed in hand to hand. Trying the key, the princess in the window saw in her painting. She frantically tore at the painting on the wall of Helena's bedroom. The dream house began to shake. Helena's arm was broken. She just gave her trust. Valentine the clown cheated her key and betrayed her to the Dark Lady.
Helena, who was looted into the dark palace, was hypnotized by the magical soft and intoxicating magic music. In the dance and singing of the iron arm robot, she was unknowingly changed into luxurious black clothes and painted thickly. Her evening makeup, her clear eyes have also turned into a dark, invisible abyss-she has become the darling girl of the Dark Queen! The clown Valentine’s conscience discovered that when he returned to the lake, he found the princess’s message. He was very regretful. He awakened Helena by juggling with balls. The two found the spell in the mirror of the princess’s bedroom---magic mirror. Because of Valentine's delay, the princess burned all her paintings before Helen acted. Without windows, Helena would never be able to return to her own world!
The princess ran out of the house and came to the seaside balcony where Helena used to come. The seagulls flew up and laughed wildly at the freedom she had gained. Unexpectedly, Helena also drew a window on the door leading to the balcony. Helena rebuked the princess for not being able to Dealing with the reality, through this window, she drove the princess into her world. At the same time, the Queen of Light woke up and the world was restored to balance. Helena also returned to the seaside balcony. Dad found and told her mother that the operation was successful. Up.
The circus fulfilled his father's long-cherished wish and came to Scotland. A young guy asked to join the circus, and it turned out to be Valentine!
Helena dreams of leaving, but when she really ran away in her dream, she realized the importance of her previous life. Just as the princess said in the message to the Dark Lady: No one's departure will not cause damage to other people's world. It’s not so easy to return to the original when you realize this damage, but since it’s your own dream, you have to work hard to deal with all the disasters caused by yourself. Helena has gone through many hardships, the most important thing is What is learned is to bravely admit your mistakes and say "I'm sorry" to the one you love in a timely manner. It turns out that the real life is all around us! And fleeing is not as easy and beautiful as we imagined you.
The film begins in reality, but the plot blooms like flowers in dreams. Following Helena, we returned to the journey we had dreamed of in girlhood, and we also struggled with her in our similar dreams. Dreams are our own, danger can come, but we will always find a suitable solution. Just like how we feel in our own dreams, we are experiencing danger without fear. The clear and shallow stories evolve soothingly and nervously in those bizarre pictures. Everything is beautiful and fantastic, making people intoxicated. , Make people obsessed, make people can't bear to go out.
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