Une bête sanguinaire, le Jabberwocky, ravage le royaume de Bruno le Contestable. Le roi promet la main de sa fille a celui qui anéantira le monstre.
Le film suit Alice Liddell, la jeune fille qui avait inspiré Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles à Lewis Carroll, qui est devenue une femme âgée. Les personnages du conte, qui auparavant l'amusaient tant, sont devenus dans son esprit plus obscurs et commencent même à la hanter. Se replongeant dans son passé, elle repense à sa relation privilégiée avec le timide écrivain, en l’envisageant maintenant sous un angle nouveau, auquel son âge lui permet désormais d’accéder...
Alice is summoned by the White Rabbit to save Wonderland from spreading Darkness. However, she knows Alice in Wonderland is a story and that this must be a dream. And so it proves, but at the end, the now grown-up Alice sees the events of her dream begin to unfold for real.
Follows Lewis Carroll’s characters on a quest to find the elusive Snark creature on a tropical island. They encounter surreal adventures and twisted logic as they search for meaning and understanding.
It's a timeless classic of children's literature and the third most-quoted book in English after the Bible and Shakespeare. But what lies behind the extraordinary appeal of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to generations of adults and children alike? To mark the 150th anniversary of its publication, this film explores the life and imagination of its author, the Reverend Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll. Journalist Martha Kearney delves into the biographies of both Carroll himself and of the young girl, Alice Liddell, who inspired his most famous creation. She discusses the book with a range of experts, biographers and distinguished cultural figures - from actor Richard E Grant to children's author Philip Pullman - and explores with them the mystery of how a retiring, buttoned-up and meticulous mathematics don, who spent almost his entire life within the cloistered confines of Christ Church Oxford, was able to capture the world of childhood in such a captivating way.