Rufus is transported to the Dream Station, a giant space station in orbit above The Land of Nod, the land where all the dreams in the universe take place.

Rufus is transported to the Dream Station, a giant space station in orbit above The Land of Nod, the land where all the dreams in the universe take place. Dr Muhahahaha has sabotaged the Dream Station and is gradually sending the Earth's population to sleep.

Buck and Gelina, the Dream Station technicians with responsibility for the Earth's dreams, tell Rufus of the planet's peril. To save the world from its waking nightmare, Rufus must travel to the Land of Nod and find a way to wake the world, armed only with an extremely stinky bag of cheese, mysteriously given to him by his Future Self.