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Robert is a boy who can do anything - or so old Edith Sorrel at the nursing home tells him. Robert doesn't think so, knowing as he does that he is the school geek.But something compels him to do what Edith asks - to visit old Chance House, where a boy once fell to his death from the top floor flat, to confront his fears and find some answers.Niker the bully thinks this is a great laugh. He challenges Robert to spend the night at Chance House with him - but there the balance of power changes, and it is Robert who proves to be the stronger.Niker feels threatened by the change - and when he finds out Robert's secret obsession, to make the dying Edith Sorrel a coat of feathers like in the old legend of the Firebird, he knows just how to wrest his old power back. But just how important is the coat of feathers? Could it really save Edith's life?

12岁的罗伯特，绰号罗大呆，是班上倒霉的男孩，他长得很瘦弱，还总被同班的尼克欺负。他的父母离婚了，爸爸已经有了新家庭。一天，学校推行一个与赡养院老人们的互动活动，他认识了艾迪丝——一个患了重病，总是神经兮兮的老太太。她告诉罗伯特一个地点，嘱咐他一定要去。那正是在孩子们中间流传的、镇上的鬼屋——废弃房屋“机会之屋”。传说中，曾有一个以为自己会飞的男孩在那里的顶楼坠落而亡。罗伯特虽然沉默寡言，但对承诺却出乎意料地执着，所以，他真的去了。然后，一切都开始不一样……