you wake up in the dreamworld, and have no idea who you are or anything. Charl the cat helps you find your memory fragments that have been scattered to other people's dreamscapes. you need those memory fragments to be able to leave from your own dreamscape. once you have them, you need to beat Lilith, who thanks to having named you in your first encounter, now "owns" you through a curse.
As a kid you weren't exactly close with your father, who needed to constantly man the counter at the curio shop. due to your loneliness, you decided to head out of town to play, but are blocked by the guard at the gate. you manage to sneak past. out in the woods, you get attacked by an orc and are almost killed, until you are rescued by someone. Amy, the painter who saved you, takes you back to her house/studio to heal. being a skilled enough warrior to be able to live outside the city walls, Amy offers to train you. you agree and start training. you also meet Alice, another kid from town who, like you, left town and was saved by Amy when attacked by monsters. you all have fun training and playing with each other, and even manage to bond with your father over his love of the mysteriousness of some curios i.e. book in unknown language. eventually Amy starts feeling weak though, and falls into an unending sleep. You and Alice call a doctor to help her, but the doctor isn't able to help. seeing that her situation is outside his realm of expertise, he calls in a group of magicians to come and help you. one thing leads to another, and you, Alice, the Magician, and Charlotte enter the dreamworld to save her.