Ant Timpson (producer – Mister Organ) directs Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings) in a charming New Zealand adventure.

11-year-old Mildred's world is turned upside down when her estranged father, the washed-up magician Strawn Wise (Wood), comes to look after her and agrees to take her camping to find a mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther.