24-6-2025

Every nine years, in the village of Wall in rural England, a market is held on the other side of a stone wall dividing the realm of Faerie from our world. In the early Victorian era, young Dunstan Thorn meets Una, a fairy enslaved by the witch Semele, at the market. Dunstan purchases a glass snowdrop from her with a kiss and, later that night, has sex with her in the woods. Months later, Dunstan receives a baby in a basket—his and Una's son, Tristran.

Eighteen years later, Tristran is infatuated with someone named Victoria Forester. In Faerie, the dying Lord of the castle of Stormhold throws his pendant out the window, declaring that the first of his three surviving sons—Primus, Tertius, and Septimus—to retrieve it will be his successor. The pendant flies upward and knocks a star out of the sky. While walking Victoria home, Tristran sees a falling star land in Faerie and vows to bring it to her. Victoria agrees to reward him with whatever he desires—including her hand in marriage—if he succeeds. Dunstan gives Tristran the snowdrop and enables him to pass the wall's guards by alluding to his fairy heritage.