The Keenan's are a well-respected family. Silently they have kept their secrets and watched the family fall apart over the recent years.

In a time of superstition and magic, when wolves are seen as demonic and nature an evil to be tamed, a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last pack. But when she saves a wild native girl, their friendship leads her to discover the world of the Wolfwalkers and transform her into the very thing her father is tasked to destroy.

Ireland, 1892. A recently widowed mother forms a sinister relationship with the body of her husband, leaving it to her son John to sever the ties that bind them.

Grace aged 11, is woken up from her dream about going to the moon in a rocket ship by her parents and their friends arguing about the future in the sitting room below.