She feels ignored by her own parents and exhausted when Coraline proceeds into an old house. She finds a door using a passage that is bricked up. During the night, she finds a parallel universe where everybody has switches rather than eyes and her dreams coming true and strikes the passage. As soon as the Other Mother invites Coraline to stay in her world forever, the woman fails and finds that the alternate reality where she's trapped is a trick to lure her again.