While flying a kite on a hill two children named Stevie and Nancy are swept away aloft by their kite in scifi fashion to a fantasy wonderlandtype world called Agapeland It is a lush green place near a river containing oversized mushrooms living plants and friendly woodland animals Shortly after their arrival in the pleasant Agapeland Stevie and Nancy discover the Marvelous Music Machine which Stevie explains is a quanamatic digilator Stevie tries to make it work but only succeeds in causing it to produce a loud noise which shoves him back into the Music Machines caretaker possibly creator The Conductor