Alice

Alice sits by a brook with her sister and throws rocks into the water. The peaceful moment hints at the imagination that will pull her into a strange world. The scene establishes a dreamy, childlike mood that underlines the adventure to come.

Back at home, Alice returns to her sitting room and begins tossing rocks into a cup of tea. The ordinary ritual contrasts with the peculiar tremor in the air around her. A sense that something uncanny is about to happen hangs over the scene.

A creaking noise draws Alice's attention to a taxidermic White Bunny in a glass case. The Bunny moves, frees himself by grabbing a hidden pair of scissors, and smashes the case to escape. His sudden liberation marks the start of a surreal chase.

The Bunny darts toward a writing desk perched on a hill, and Alice follows into the pursuit. She crawls into the drawer and tumbles into a dark cellar beneath the desk. The descent plunges her into a strange, new realm.

Inside this other world, Alice slips into a dustbin and slides into an elevator that travels past shelves of odd objects. The elevator stops and deposits her atop a pile of leaves. The leaves stir, revealing another desk beyond.

The leaves uncover a new desk where a tiny key hides nearby. Alice uses the key to open a miniature door and sees the Bunny vanish into a painted garden. She also spots an unlabeled bottle of dark ink nearby, hinting at future powers.

Alice drinks the dark ink and shrinks into a delicate china doll, unable to fit through the tiny door. The altered size makes the world feel both wondrous and perilous. The transformation foreshadows the changing scales of her journey.

A butter tart makes her grow again, blocking the path through the door. Frustration erupts into tears, flooding the room with water-like tears. The Bunny arrives with a tray of tarts; after eating one, Alice returns to doll size and retrieves the key to continue the chase.

Through the door, Alice returns to the banks of a brook and is mistaken for the Bunny’s maid, who orders her to fetch scissors from his house. Inside, she drinks from another ink bottle and becomes her true size again, only to be trapped inside the Bunny’s now-too-small house. The Bunny’s allies then send a skull-headed lizard down the chimney to eject her, but it bursts, spilling its sawdust innards.

The Bunny and his animal companions trap Alice inside an Alice-shaped doll shell, locking it in a storage room filled with specimen jars. Her confinement intensifies the sense of danger and claustrophobic magic. She strains to find a way out of this surreal prison.

Alice breaks free of the doll shell and discovers a key inside a sardine can. She uses the key to escape the storage room and steps into a hall of doors, each one leading to a different corner of the dreamlike world. The journey continues as she prepares to choose her next path.

In a room filled with sock-worms, a stocking-Caterpillar explains that eating one piece of his darning mushroom causes things to grow, while the other piece makes things shrink. He warns that size can be a tool or a trap depending on how it’s used. Alice weighs this knowledge as she plans her next move.

Following the sound of a screaming baby, Alice enters a tiny dollhouse and enlarges herself by eating a piece of the mushroom. She finds the Bunny tending a piglet in baby clothes, and the Bunny escapes, prompting her to chase him to the attic. There, a wind-up March Hare and a marionette Hatter host a mechanical tea party as she closes in.

Behind a curtain of clothes, Alice reaches the painted garden where the King and Queen of Hearts arrive with a troop of playing cards. The Queen orders the Bunny to behead several Jacks, and he complies, turning the croquet lawn into a chaotic spectacle of living animals. The surreal court grows increasingly ominous as events unfold.

In a courtroom-like finale, Alice is put on trial for eating the Queen's tarts. The King pushes a scripted procedure and the Queen demands her head, while the Bunny advances with scissors. The dream ends as Alice wakes up in her sitting room, the room filled with familiar objects her adventure completed, and she considers her next move with the hidden drawer and its scissors nearby.