Hubie Dubois who, despite his devotion to his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts (and its legendary Halloween celebration), is a figure of mockery for kids and adults alike. But this year, something really is going bump in the night, and it’s up to Hubie to save Halloween.

Hubie Horton is an aspiring inventor who dreams of coming up with a product like the ones he sees on Shark Tank. After a particularly bad day during which the company he works for goes under, his car is recalled, and his favorite snack is discontinued, he gets an intriguing offer to participate in a research study for some much-needed cash. The results, however, cut Hubie to his core, causing him to doubt any commercial instincts he thought he had. Hopefully, a new friend and a flash of inspiration can help.

The love between Mateusz Krol, a Kashubian boy, and Marita von Krauss, a Prussian aristocrat in whose family home he is taken in when his mother dies, grows and matures thorough the years, while Kashubia, the northern Polish region where they live, suffers the consequences of the tragedies that will ravage Europe from the beginning of the 20th century until the end of the World War II.

A bashful bachelor penguin named Hubie, who’s partial to a pretty female named Marina. Ancient penguin ritual dictates that males present a pebble to their intended, then mate for life. Hubie finds a spiffy stone, but before he can bestow it on Marina, dastardly rival Drake tosses him into the churning sea, and Hubie gets swept away.