Annie loves drawing and painting and when she a painting of a lonely lighthouse in their home, she is immediately drawn to it - and her mother wishes it would stay banished in the attic. When Annie's mother slips into a coma following a car accident, strange things begin to happen to Annie. She finds herself falling into the painting and meeting Claire, a girl her own age living at the lighthouse. Claire's mother Maisie is the artist behind the painting. But who IS Claire? Why can Annie travel through the painting? And can Annie help her mother wake up from her coma?