Cross Purposes and The Shadows

A mischievous queen of Fairyland grows bored with her perfectly behaved subjects and decides to invite a few mortals into her realm. She tasks the graceful Peaseblossom and the bumbling goblin Toadstool with the impossible – to bring a girl and a boy across the border where reality blurs with enchantment. Their quirky attempts set the tone for a world where doors appear and vanish, and the line between the ordinary and the magical is delightfully uncertain.

In a quiet village, Alice, a dreamy young woman who longs for perpetual sunset, is approached by a tiny, crown‑clad fairy offering exactly that. Suddenly she finds herself shrunken to the fairy’s size, stepping onto a bed that transforms into a grand hall and wandering through meadows and streams that seem to flow without banks. As she follows the fairy deeper into this luminous landscape, the familiar world slips away, inviting listeners to share her sense of wonder and the gentle suspense of a quest that has only just begun.