Nyagrodha! Command the wind to be still. And in the silence that follows the tree will shake down stories??? As their train puffs away into the distance, three runaway children??"Lily, Vicky and Aman??"are led by Mahmil Khan the monkey into the shimmering world of the forest ... Deep within its shadows, beyond the last cloud on the horizon, stands Nyagrodha, the ancient banyan.

Within its magical labyrinth the children encounter monarchs and mice, dreamers and scholars, paupers and fortune-seekers, braggarts and burglars, foppish fish and bloodsucking bugs, gory battles and incredible flying machines??? But none of these can distract them from the dangers that threaten Simcha the fierce young king and his friend Jeeva, the musical bull.

For the story of their tangled lives is very like the children’s' own??? Will Aman, Vicky and Lily find their way back home through the maze of stories? Or will treachery destroy the friendship between Simcha and Jeeva, and leave the forest wounded and bleeding forever? ???This is an upside-down story,' Hanumanth the Languor warns the children. ???A story that will turn you inside out. Will you hear it unafraid?'