Fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill longs to escape from the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys. When his chance comes, he grabs it, but things go fatally wrong. Cosmo feels his life force ebbing away... until a wisecracking gang of kids burst in and save him. They are the Supernaturalists and Cosmo's new life with this unlikely new 'family' is about to begin...