故事讲述小男孩Bastian Bux迷上了一本名叫《永不结束的故事》的书，故事将Bastian Bux深深吸引到书本里，甚至让他幻想自己就是其中最重要的角色。而书中描述的幻想国逐渐被“空无”吞噬，女王因为重病无法抵抗“空无”，于是幻想国派出勇者Atreyu寻找拯救女王的药，Bastian Bux就在Atreyu的追寻中体验幻想国的每个地方、认识每个人物，随着Atreyu的欢喜与挫折起伏…… 幻想国之所以被“空无”吞噬，是因为她是由人类的幻想所创造出来的国度，当人类不再幻想，并忘记那些幻想时，幻想国当然就什么也不剩了。Bastian Bux最后发现幻想国中的人并没有办法拯救他们自己，只有人类才能拯救幻想国，他必须靠着丰沛的想像力，重现幻想国的生机……
The true story is of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin's private film projectionist from 1939 until Stalin's death. Told from Sanchin's view, the sympathetic but tragically flawed hero, squirrel, maintains unwavering faith in his "Master" despite the arrest of his neighbors and his involvement with their daughter, his wife's affair with the chilling State Security chief Lavrentii Beria and her tragic decline, and the deadly political machinations within the Kremlin he witnesses firsthand.
