故事混合愛麗絲、綠野仙蹤的故事，主角是The Doll's House裡的Barbie，她跟愛人Ken分手，從Florida搬到紐約，跟五個室友住在一起－－變性人Wanda、同性戀情侶Foxglove跟Hazel（曾出現在#6中）、宅女Thessaly和陰沉男George。過去她常作夢，夢到自己是個公主，住在一個童話王國裡。直到有一天，她再也不做夢了。（Doll's House事件的影響，使得她的童話王國被捲入Dream的國度裡，與自己分離。）她不知道的是，因為她的離去，使得童話王國被名叫Cuckoo的惡徒統治。
Barbie過去的動物同伴Martin Tenbones逃出夢境來找她，希望公主能夠回來拯救童話王國。另方面Cuckoo也在現實世界派出殺手George追殺Barbie。Tenbones是一隻比人高的巨犬，牠在街上出現引起大眾圍觀，也吸引了路過的Barbie。Tenbones看到Barbie興奮的撲上前去，卻被趕來的警察誤認為牠要傷害人，開槍打死。Barbie從Tenbones的屍體上獲得夢之石。當晚她在睡眠中，經由夢之石回到她的童話王國。然而她不知道殺手George早就成為她的鄰居，準備利用噩夢鳥吸取公寓其他人的惡夢來摧毀夢之石。
這個故事的含意是「每個人並非其所見」，例如Wanda看似女人實際上是男人；Foxglove仍陷在過去女友Judy的離去（#6, "24 hours"）；Hazel雖然是同性戀，但她卻不小心跟別人發生一夜情，還懷孕了；Thessaly是......再說下去就劇透太多了。
我最喜歡裡面的一句話是大反派Cuckoo說的：
"Little boys have fantasies in which they're faster, or smarter, or able to fly. Where they hide their faces in secret identities, and listen to the people who despite them admiring their remarkable deeds.
"But little girls have fantasies that are much less convoluted. Their parents are not their parents. Their lives are not their lives. They are princesses, lost princesses from distant lands. And one day the king and queen, their *real* parents, will take them back to their land, and then they'll be happy for ever and ever. Little cuckoos."
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