Wander is a scarecrow, a lost child of the Realm who gradually lost his memories until nothing was left but a straw-filled husk. After a chance encounter leads to Wander remembering his name, a wild wisp leads Wander from the safety of his field to a young, black-feathered harpy separated from her flock. They search for the flock only to find them imprisoned in the nearby farming community of Jardinfae, blamed for the theft of the wisps that protected the town. Joined by the town's gruff teddy sheriff, Wander and his friends search across the fields of Jardinfae, the trees of the Patchwork Woods, and into the depths of the Lumen Mountains in hopes of finding the lost wisps so they can vindicate the flock and ultimately save Jardinfae from a threat that seeks to purge the light from the town forever.