Sophie Mae, an orphan living on her family farm in Drycrop, Oklahoma, is barely surviving the dust bowl of 1935. On the verge of starvation, she stumbles cross a traveling box that transports her to the Gardenia Estate, a vast property in Evenland, Minnesota, surrounded by lush gardens and plentiful food. A closer inspection of the home reveals invisible people who maintain the estate, one being a circus magician named George the Great. The enchanted home is a dream come true, until rumors of the estate owner's untimely death have her doubting the magician's true intentions.