As a little bunny says goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room, the illustrations grow progressively darker.

The beauty and wonder of a northern winter night unfold.

While preparing for bedtime, a little girl and her dog note all the different kinds of lights that brighten up the night, from headlights to moonlight.

A mother and child listen and look as night settles in.

A little raccoon wants to see the night but his mother makes him wait until the full moon.

A stormy night awakens several sleeping animals.

Journalist Hannah Vogel, traveling by zeppelin from South America to Switzerland with her adopted son, Anton, is waylaid by Ernst Rőhm, head of the Nazis' paramilitary organization, who kidnaps Anton, claiming to be his fahter, and Hannah finds her self in a race against the Gestapo to find the boy after Ernst is arrested and executed.