When teenage Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) is forced to babysit her brother Toby, she's quickly daydreaming about him being whisked away – but her vivid imagination proves to be a problem when the Goblin King Jareth (David Bowie) appears and steals him away to his labyrinthine castle. Sarah's got until midnight to rescue Toby from Jareth's dangerous clutches – but will she succeed before he's lost forever?