Coraline has moved to a new house with her parents and she is fascinated by the fact that their 'house' is in fact only half a house! Divided into flats years before, there is a brick wall behind a door where once there was a corridor and one day it is a corridor again, down which the intrepid Coraline wanders.

And so a nightmarish mystery begins that takes Coraline into the arms of counterfeit parents and a life that isn't quite right.

Can Coraline get out? Can she find her real parents? Will life ever be the same again?