You play as Orphrey, a girl who is the Snowglobe's bell keeper. Next to the Snowglobe sits the Hourglass, which contains a sense of time unlike the Snowglobe. A boy known as Galimatias lives within the Hourglass. Galimatias helps the neighboring Snowglobe's village keep track of time by leaving written signals in the sand for Orphrey to ring her bell in sync with. Help Orphrey ring the bell according to Galimatias' queues, and look for her lost letters!