 In an alternate reality, children are being kidnapped by strange cyclopses and taken to the laboratory of an evil scientist named Krank, who steals their dreams because he has never had any of his own. Elsewhere, an orphan girl named Miette is sent on robbery jobs by her keepers, a set of female siamese twins known collectively as Octopus. Miette meets a man named One, who is the strong man at the local funfair. Together they embark on a journey to find One s little brother who has been kidnapped by the cyclopses.