Once upon a time there was a young girl named Sarah. Sarah was a normal teenager of the 80's who lived with her father, stepmother, and baby half-brother, Toby. One day, Sarah (who wants to be an actress) is out in the park reading her favorite play, The Labyrinth. She runs home at 7:00, realizing that she's late for babysitting Toby. It begins to rain, and Sarah hikes up her long dress-up skirt and runs quickly to her house with her dog, Merlin. Little did she know that a large, white owl had been watching her.
When she reaches the house, her stepmother begins to yell at her for being late. Sarah, as any teenager would do, yells back and storms up to her room. After the adults leave, Sarah realized her favorite bear, Lancelot, is missing. She runs into Toby's room and finds her bear. Toby begins to cry, and Sarah attempts to make him be quiet my telling him a story in which the Goblin King falls in love with a young girl (who sounds suspiciously like Sarah) and offers to take away the screaming child she is forced to take care of. Unwittingly, Sarah calls on the goblins to take Toby away, and the King of Goblins, Jareth, shows up in her bedroom. Deciding that she has to get Toby back, Sarah looks out onto a huge labyrinth. "It doesn't look too far . . ." she says. "It's further than you'd think." Replies Jareth. "You have thirteen hours in which to solve the labyrinth, or your baby brother become one of us, forever . . ."