The adventures of a spirited boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century, as he tries a new method for curing warts, witnesses a murder, runs away to an island and pretends to be a pirate, watches his own funeral, and falls for the new girl in the neighborhood.

Claiming he is tired of 'kid stuff', Peter Pan wraps himself in bandages and moves his friends to Mummy Land, but when Wendy points out that pretending to be something you are not is exactly what kids do, the Dust Boys decide to return to the real world with her--if they can escape from the skeleton Captain Hook.