The author of the book, an eleven-year-old girl, tells the story of a "plain" shoe and unfolds its struggles and disappointments with a hard-to-ignore sense of humour and quirky turn of phrase. Benjamin, the maker of the shoe, grew up in a gloomy orphanage, deprived from the love that can be found in conventional family homes. Despite being a talented, hardworking, and kind boy, he endures a tough life until magic intervenes, and the shoe and its owner find the true meaning of friendship, along with a destiny beyond their dreams...