It’s a family story about a little girl and her parents, about her books, toys and gnomes who deliver sleep to people. One evening it seems that someone has stolen Stella's sleep because she can't fall asleep even after her dad has read many bedtime stories. In an effort to help her find her missing sleep, all of Stella's toys become detectives, and eventually they discover it was delivered to a room where no one dared to look - her mom's working room, where she was hiding as she had to work longer that night!
Anete Melece portrays the daily challenges that all new parents face - the difficulty of putting a child to sleep at night. Actual events blend with imagined ones, which in fact are just as real. They are a part of the nightly bedtime routine: when one, two, often three books have been read out loud and the lights are turned off, you have to invent another story on a subject chosen by the child. In those late evenings, Anete Melece tells her daughter a new detective story. In the story, there is always one character who has lost something, and two other characters who solve the mystery - detectives Hippo and Flamingo.