Winnie Foster is a ten year old girl, living in the village of Treegap. It is the summer of 1880 and she is continuing to live her strict and boring life. One day, Winnie decides to run away because she was tired of being watched by her mother and grandmother. She wanders off into the woods owned by the Fosters and meets a boy named Jesse Tuck, drinking from a spring. The girl also wants to refresh herself with the water but Jesse refuses so he takes her away with the Tuck family, who were currently having a family reunion. It upsets Winnie that she was kidnapped so Mae Tuck, the mother of the family explains a secret to her of their strange past. After listening to the story, Winnie learns that the Tuck family is immortal because they drank
