CinemaNow - Nilus the Sandman Special 01: The First Day

NILUS THE SANDMAN is back, as he sprinkles his golden I and whisks a young girl into a nighttime adventure that will engage young and old alike!NILUS visits Samantha, the new kid at school, who is desperately trying to fit in with the "cool" crowd. Samantha wishes that she could be anyone other than herself and anywhere other than where she is. And so Nilus obliges...Together Nilus and Samantha start a journey of self-discovery. In the jungle tropics, they are transformed into colourful parrots; they continue through the ocean depths as fish in an exuberant sea and finally zoom to the outer space world of "Chummy-Dum-Do."In Chummy-Dum-Do, they meet up with the ultra-cool, widely imitated rockers "Trendoid and Trenda", who quickly take Samantha into their trendy fold, and who just as quickly, cast her into the Outer Zone when she fails to uphold their standards of "cool".With Nilus' guidance, Samantha must escape from this cold and cruel world, and in doing so, she discovers the meaning of true friendship and the importance of just being herself!