A young boy befriends the face of the Earth and changes time forever...

He lies in bed each night listening to its ticktocking, to the pendulum's heavy swing. One night, too inquisitive to sleep, Richard tiptoes from his bed, opens the cherry wood door of the grandfather clock, and steps inside. There, in a strange, nebulous twilight, he sees the face of the Earth, locked forever in a simulated world. Moved by the face's ancient tale of mysterious, magnetic love, Richard longs to release him. So one night he secretly winds back the hands of the grandfather clock, and changes time forever...