When eleven-year-old Olive and her dippy mathematician parents move into the deceased Ms. McMartin's crumbling Victorian mansion, she knows there's something odd about the place, not least the walls covered in strange antique paintings. But when Olive finds a pair of old spectacles in a dusty drawer, she discovers the most peculiar thing yet: she can travel inside these paintings to a world that's strangely quiet and eerily like her own. However, Elsewhere harbors dark secrets.