The Maestro (Michael Jackson) lives alone in a creepy-looking mansion on top of a hill, overlooking the town of "Normal Valley", and occasionally entertains the local children with scary magic tricks and scary ghost stories. One of the children tells his mother about this, and out of fear for her kids, alerts the Mayor (also Michael Jackson). He in turn organizes the townspeople to go to the Maestro's mansion and force him out of town. The children assure the parents that the Maestro is friendly and harmless, and has done nothing wrong, and even ask them to leave him alone. But the mayor says that he's a weirdo and cannot be allowed to stay in their town.