It follows both a father and son's journey out of their sheltered lives. These stories take place consecutively. The father's story give us the interesting story of his son's origin.
The bigger story is that of the son. He is madly in love with a girl and promises her the star that fell from the sky. The rest of the story is his journey to find and return the star to his love. Along the way he meets many fanciful and fantastic creatures. Some will help and some will hinder him along the way. The story is woven like a typical Gaiman spider web, you are never sure which way it will go and where it will end up.
I would love to write more, but the beauty of this book is discovering the fairy tale one strand at a time.
There is also a movie based on the book, but of course it is different and not as exciting. Gaiman has said that when your story becomes a film you have to let go of your piece of art and let someone else take it and make it their own.
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