One night, A blind boy dream walks to the zoo. When he arrives, he discovers the zoo has moved. Only the ghost of an elephant, once the zoo's star attraction, who got sick and died, remains. The elephant also wants to find the new zoo, so the child and elephant begin a journey together in the boy's dream. The poor children of the city leave their beds and dream walk to join them. At the new zoo, they are stopped by the Zookeeper. The boy must face his deepest sorrow before they can enter the zoo, a memory he cannot bear to face.