For Milo, everything's a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he's got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the island of Conclusions, learns about time from a ticking watchhdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason.
Ten-year-old Milo travels through a magical tollbooth and embarks on a journey to the Kingdom of Wisdom, where he and a "watch" dog named Tock try to end the feud between numbers and words.