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Synopsis: The Neverending Story begins in an old bookstore, where a young Bastian Balthasar Bux discovers a mysterious book: “The Neverending Story”. Instantly hooked, he reads about the heroic Atréyu and his dangerous mission to save the realm of Fantastica and its ruler, the Childlike Empress, from being erased by ‘The Nothing’, a force of total oblivion. Bastian, unable to put the book down, soon realises that he is more than an uninvolved spectator and ultimately finds himself transported into Fantastica. On his many adventures...