Stanley Yelnats IV is wrongly accused of stealing Clyde ‘’Sweet Feet’’ Livingston’s shoe donation to a local orphanage and sent to Camp Green Lake as a punishment. At Green Lake, he is forced to dig large holes in the desert everyday by the order of the mysterious Warden and her assistants Mr.Sir and Mr. Pendanski, whom he believes to find a buried treasure that is cracked murderer Kissin kate Barlow.