Peter G has finally come of age, and his life as a grown-up pixie man should be speeding ahead. Unfortunately, he's stuck, waiting for the love of his life to arrive. When they were children, they promised to meet, but where is she? Why hasn't she come?

His cousin is busy with his wife and two children, his friend Joe is moving on in the human world, but Peter G is stuck running messages for friends and family.

One day his sister-by-love, Pia, sends him to visit Barbie, the human woman who used to be her husband's girlfriend. This entails time in the city and a hair-raising interview with Barbie's hostile husband—but on his return, he finally meets his long-awaited Gentian at the crossing gate.

What should be a time of joy and celebration quickly descends into trouble and worry when he discovers he must deal with the imperious Mistress Dandelion as well. Life is suddenly complicated.