Having escaped Count Olaf's clutches, the three Baudelaire siblings arrive on the shores of Lake Lachrymose to stay with Aunt Josephine. When she goes missing, the Baudelaires must once again fight their way out of Count Olaf's wicked schemes.
Mr Poe delivers the three Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus and little Sunny, to their new guardian, the owner of the Lucky Smells Lumbermill in Paltryville. But far from living in the mill, they quickly discover they will be working in it.