Instructions for making a three-story dollhouse in the Victorian style with period furniture and fittings and a family of miniature dolls.

When Miss Renée's exquisite dollhouses become inhabitated by a group of mice, she thinks she wants to be rid of them.

While Isobel is playing with her best friend's beautiful doll house, she takes the golden plate home without asking permission. But the plate doesn't look right in Isobel's doll house and she feels guilty. Her mother helps her find a solution that makes Isobel feel better.

Two discarded toy mice survive perilous adventures in a hostile world before finding security and happiness with old friends and new.