Coraline and her family are renting part of a very old house and other people live in the house too. There are two elderly roommates named Miss Spink and Miss Forcible who used to be actresses. They have a lot of dogs. The other neighbor is a weird old man who lives upstairs and has a mouse circus. She enjoys exploring that she spends in the garden at her new home a lot the times. When Miss Spink and Miss Forcible warn her about a dangerous well, but she goes to look for it. She keeps herself busy exploring outside for two weeks, but one day it rains, so she's stuck inside. Both of her parents work from home, but they tell her to go entertain herself and her father suggests she count random things in the house. She is walking around the house