When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles upon the Tuck family's disurbing secret, she is forced to come to terms with her conflicting emotions. She feels drawn to the loving, gentle and rather eccentric Tucks, but what they tell her is too incredible to be believed. Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magical spring, the Tuck family tries to make Winnie understand that the terrible magic of the forest can never be revealed. The consequences to the world could prove disastrous.