A dark fable set five years after the end of the Spanish Civil War. Eleven-year-old Ofelia comes face to face with the horrors of fascism when she and her pregnant mother are uprooted to the countryside, where her new stepfather, a sadistic captain in General Franco's army, hunts down Republican guerrillas who refuse to give up the fight. The violent reality in which she lives merges seamlessly with a fantastical interior world when Ofelia meets a...

Space travel runs in Mike Goldwing's family: both his father and grandfather were astronauts. But the twelve-year-old's estranged grandfather, Frank, has lived a life isolated after missing out on the chance to make history as a member of the Apollo XI crew. When Mike discovers that an eccentric billionaire plans to fly to the moon, claim its vast, valuable mineral resources, and destroy the American flag planted by the Apollo XI astronauts, the countdown...