Alex calms his younger brother when they hear strange noises at bedtime, but is he brave enough to cross the cold floor of their dark room when a feet-grabbing, toe-eating, noise-making "something" might get him?.
The daughter of the ruler of the ocean, where it is always dark, visits the world above where it is always day. She falls in love and decides to stay, but she misses the dark and asks her father to send her some darkness.
When the daughter of the river goddess Yemoya goes to the Land of Shining Day to marry a handsome earth chief, her longing for the cool darkness of her former home causes Night to be brought to the world.