The NeverEnding Story

Young Bastian has just lost his mum and is struggling in life. One day, while trying to get away from the school bullies, he takes refuge in an old bookshop. Here, he starts reading an old storybook about a mythical world, Fantasia, which is full of weird and wonderful creatures. As he reads on, Bastian discovers that Fantasia is becoming endangered, its lovely empress gravely ill and its very existence threatened by a powerful dark force known as The Nothing. A child warrior called Ateryu has been summoned to set off on a mission to defeat The Nothing and save Fantasia. But can one brave warrior and his horse halt the distrutction before Fantasia is lost forever? And what will Bastian discover in the book?