This heartfelt, fantastical story of a troubled, imaginative girl devoted to Alice in Wonderland explores the agonies of growing up as an outsider and the complexities of parenting. Phoebe’s guilt-ridden mother and her perplexed husband initially see Phoebe’s unusual behavior as signs of creativity, but with the help of an unconventional drama teacher they soon realize that their daughter is in danger of falling “through the looking glass.”