A boy becomes lost and subject to capricious faerie cruelty. He escapes only to see another of his family trapped in the same way.
A young boy, Donal, in a country district finds life lonely in a busy family of older siblings. He wanders and makes friends with an old faerie court. He becomes enchanted by Puck and joins the band.
But they have plans to revenge themselves upon him for all they feel they have lost to mankind. They make him mad and cast him away. He is befriended by others that have suffered in their own way and starts to rebuild a life for himself.
As time moved on another young girl Deborah, suffers from the same loneliness and is also befriended Puck and by the court. She is not as easily trapped because she is outside of the laws of magic.
The court seeks to take magic for themsleves. They are not as alone as they thought. Soon there will be war.