Clever Beatrice seeks out Mister Le Pain, the village breadmaker, to come up with a plan to protect her pony from the tiny bearded lutin that magically rides him every night.
In Tahiti in the 1890s, sixteen-year-old Joe, a native Californian and a sailor, determines to avenge the death of his best friend at the hands of a gun smuggler known as The White Wolf, and finds an unlikely ally in the artist, Paul Gauguin.