Merlin the magician will not eat or sleep or speak to anyone. The enchantress Morgan asks young Jack and Annie of Frog Creek, Pennsylvania for help. Jack and Annie know they have to search for one of the four secrets of happiness to help Merlin the magician find joy in his life again. And so they head off in the magic tree house for Florence, Italy, in the early 1500s, then to a misty island in the middle of nowhere, then to the continent of Antarctica.