Cindy Lost was an ordinary girl with an ordinary mother. That is, until she set the cat's tail on fire by waving a stick at him. After that everything became weird. Gnomes coming out of her mother's glass cabinet, being just one example, and large Black birds asking to be let into the house being another. Her introduction into a world of enchantment and all things magical was tempered by the knowledge that something evil was lurking there. Finding out that her mother was not as she seemed to be, and was suspected of being the infamous Black Witch, Cindy set out to unmask the real culprit, and prove her mother's innocence.