In this retelling of the classic fairytale, Hansen and Gracie are orphaned twins, but their ability to hear each other even when they are not together has made them strange and helped them when faced with a witch. Hansen and Gracie are orphaned twins, but their ability to hear each other even when they are not together has made them strange, and prevented them from being adopted--so when the evil officials from the orphanage abandon them in the woods they set out to find a home of their own.