The magical flame that keeps alive the world of Altea has disappeared, and must be found before its too late. Ailan, son of a painter, and Marill, daughter of a scientist, find themselves involved in this incredible adventure, and togheter with the Shadow Arcons fight the power of the evil Victor Vimperion and search for the lost Flame. Between prisons and royal palaces, hypnoscopes and memoshrillers, mysterious technowizards with a double life, policemen with a velocipedes, dangerous machineries and fantastic animals, betrayals and new friendships, the two friends will have to discover the truth and try to find the starry Prism, the precious strongbox in which is contained the Flame of Altea.