Cuento de hadas

Charlie Reade looks like an ordinary high school student, but he carries a heavy weight on his shoulders. When he was only ten years old, his mother was the victim of a hit-and-run and grief drove his father to drink. Even though he was too young, Charlie had to learn to take care of himself... and also to take care of his father. Now seventeen, Charlie finds two unexpected friends: a dog named Radar and Howard Bowditch, his elderly owner. Mr. Bowditch is a hermit who lives on a huge hill, in a huge house with a tight-fitting shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it. As Charlie runs errands for Mr. Bowditch, he and Radar become inseparable. When the old man passes away, he leaves the boy a cassette tape containing an incredible story and the great secret that Bowditch has kept all his life: inside his shed there is a portal that leads to another world.