Kim bought an old jewellery box at a garage sale. It was not only old but very old with mystical properties that were built into it by the box maker, and by owners through the centuries as it passed from hand to hand and country to country. A young English adventurer found the box in India during the British Raj and it passed through his family collecting the spirits of his descendents to the present day. Kim inadvertently is swallowed into the box and taken back in time to British Calcutta where she must stay until she can discover the key to release the spirits inside and return to her own time and family.