Seventeen-year-old Buddy is trying to escape the Lower East Side slums of New York City. He wants to become an artist, a dream he's sure will never be realized. But when a delivery job puts him face-to-face with Mister Joey Drew, eccentric owner of an animation studio, Buddy is taken on as an apprentice. But not everything at the studio is as picture-perfect as it seems...something is going bump in the night and leaving behind trails of thick, dark ink. While the studio works toward a deadline, Buddy and Dot the writing intern team up to find out what is tormenting the studio after hours, even though the trail may lead back to Mister Drew himself...

Adapted from "Dreams Come to Life", a novel based on "Bendy and the Ink Machine" survival game from Joey Drew Studios.