Topper thinks summer vacation is boring. He misses his father who is sailing the seven seas. He can't figure out Sille who's cute. And his best friend, Viggo, always has to help out his punctilious dad, Mr Lion, in the café on the first floor of the red house where Topper lives on the top floor with his mother. One day, Topper finds a magic pencil and when he draws a rhino on the wall, the drawing comes to life! While Topper and Viggo try to keep the rhino, which they name Otto, well fed with black bread and raspberry soda before it devours all the furniture, Mr Lion pleads with the local authorities to come and remove the stomping pachyderm.

The girls and boys of this world are in a constant war with each other: the boys have occupied an abandoned city while the girls live in a hidden forest. But when Albert, one of the boys, wounds a girl during a battle he decides to take care of her and follow her into her forest. Suddenly a new world opens up for him, and the revealing secrets Albert is about to discover changes him, and the rest of the world with him.

The small alien creature Mops lives all alone on a tiny planet in outer space. He spends his time collecting garbage that comes falling down from the intergalactic highways high above the planet. One morning something has fallen down on the edge of the planet - something that will change his life forever.