After a shootout happens right outside her school, 10-year-old Estrella receives three wishes from her teacher in the form of three sticks of chalk. Upon arriving home, she quickly makes her first wish: for her mother to come back. The wish comes true, but not in the way Estrella expects. Fleeing the supernatural horrors she unleashed upon herself, she finds herself in the company of another kid, El Shine, and his gang of orphaned children. They, too, are on the run.