Closed in his room in the attic, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone. His only companions are the books on the shelves, which she taught him to love. But in the darkness, these books begin to whisper to him. And as they speak to him, reality and imagination slowly become one...

As his family falls apart, David feels the whispers from the shelves pulling him violently into another world – a strange reflection of his own, inhabited by heroes and monsters, and an aging king who hides his secrets in an enigmatic book: The Book of Lost Things...

A dark fairy tale about sorrow and loss, devotion and love. About the long, frightening journey from innocence to adulthood. And about the indelible power of myths in our lives.