11-year-old Tony has a unique ability - he is glowing since birth. His parents try to keep him at home to protect him from the outside world but one day he meets Shelly, a mysterious girl who moves into one of the neighboring apartments before the Christmas holidays. Tony finds his first real friend in her and someone to whom he can can reveal fantasy world in inside his pillow bunker. Shelly in turn, shows Tony a miraculous flashlight with which she can create amazing images and magical worlds from ordinary things that only they can see. Together they set for the search of the origin of mysterious wisps of darkness that drain the sunlight from their house.