Clair-de-Lune lives with her grandmother in the tippy-top of a peculiar old building. Every day she practices ballet, just like her mother before herthe famous ballerina who died when Clair-de-Lune was just a baby. Since that day, Clair-de-Lune hasnt uttered a word.Then one day the girl who cannot speak meets a remarkable mouse who can. Bonaventure dreams of founding a dancing school just for micebut he dreams of helping his new friend, too. Soon the brave little mouse introduces Clair-de-Lune to a hidden world inside, and yet somehow beyond, her buildinga world that slowly begins to open her heart. Maybe one day her dreams will come true, too.From the Hardcover edition.