What starts as an ordinary school playground with ordinary teenage tensions, gangs and cliques, takes a sinister turn when a stranger parks his Ice Cream Van outside the school gates.
Nothings is the same again.
Twelve-year-old Finn is a misfit at school and lonely at home. He is searching for his long-lost mother.
In another part of town, hell-bent on his own mission, lives the charismatic Dream Dealer. Attractive but not wholly human, his unusual origins remain a mystery. With his apparently gormless side-kick, Flake, he sets up his Ice-Cream Van by the school. However, when the adults aren't looking, it's not Ice-Creams he is selling but Ice Dreams!
Mot of the kids fall for the Dream Dealer's artful ways. Finn resists until it seems only the Dream Dealer can help him find his mum. As he finally accepts an Ice Dream he is faced with the choice of fulfilling his dream or saving the life of his enemy.
His decision leads to consequences nobody could have guessed.