Every night, in their tiny, tumbledown, drafty old house, the last thing Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore) and his family sees from their window before drifting off to sleep, is Willy Wonka's (Johnny Depp) extraordinary candy factory. One day Willy Wonka makes a momentous announcement. He will open his famous factory and reveal "all of its secrets and magic" to five lucky children who find golden tickets hidden inside five randomly selected Wonka chocolate bars. Nothing would make Charlie's family happier than to see him win, but the odds are very much against him as they can only afford to buy one chocolate bar a year. But, sometimes, magic happens and dreams do come true...