The Nutcracker has delighted audiences for generations - but what if there was more to the story than just the ballet? Clara had no idea that the present of a nutcracker from her uncle would begin a journey to the strange, wonderful land of the Mowse folk - a land she must help save from the army of the threatening Mowse Queen. Clara will need to trust herself, and her new friends Hortus the Mowse, Pyotr the soldier, and the mysterious Cicero, if she is to bring peace to the land, and find her way home.