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This article’s plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. Coraline Jones and her workaholic parents move into a large, old house that has been divided into flats. In these flats, Coraline finds she has quirky new neighbors.

These include Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, two elderly women retired from the stage, and Mr. Bobo, initially referred to as “the crazy old man upstairs”, who claims to be training a jumping mouse circus. Bobo relays a message to Coraline from his mice: “Don’t go through the door. And while having tea with Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, Miss Spink spies danger in Coraline’s future after reading her tea leaves. This time she finds an oddly familiar corridor.

On the other side of this corridor, she notices she is back in her apartment. She finds the residents of this “other apartment” to be her mother and father, but they now have buttons for eyes. Coraline immediately realizes that this “Other World” is far more interesting than her own. Here, her “parents” pay attention to her, her new button-eyed neighbors Miss Spink and Miss Forcible perform wonderful shows on stage every night, and Mr. Bobo hosts a real amazing jumping mouse circus.