Genre: Family fantasy
Tagline: Beware, there's a new thief in town!
Three years after the Happiness Thief met his match, the local community embark on a venomous witch-hunt for another frightening creature, rumoured to be stealing toys and eating children.
However when 13-year-old Emily Goodchilde and friends dig deeper, they discover a far more innocent and tragic explanation behind this poor creature's behaviour.
With hostile grown-ups closing in from every side, Emily is running out of time, as she struggles to prove the creature's innocence and find a cure for his mysterious, accelerating and soon to be irreversible condition.
Comparable films: Frankenstein, The Elephant Man, Edward Scissorhands
This is the heart of the three adventures and naturally, like any well thought-out trilogy, is the darkest of them all. Despite overcoming evil, there is a bittersweet ending. The lessons learned in this episode allow our hero to learn from her mistakes so that in the final chapter she can face her toughest challenge yet.