Could Megan, a начинаючa journalist, traveling on an assignment from her student newspaper for a weekend trip, have suspected that she would end up in a mysterious city steeped in the spirit of an old fairy tale—where there is no phone service and where residents pay with glass beads instead of money? Here, a lamplighter lights the lamps the old-fashioned way, the most respected profession is that of a glazier, and the city is run by Mayor Drosselfloer, who plays the violin for his townspeople in the evenings. Together with the artist Britt and the idler Hugh, Megan discovers that there is no way out from here into the familiar, understandable world. And no small courage will be needed to uncover its secrets and escape the captivity of the Glass City…