When a little girl named Red goes down to her dark basement one day, she encounters a monster there...and Red's great chase is on The monster chases her up the basement stairs, out of the house, through the park, over a mountain, and finally into outer space. Red is all out of breath, and so is the big scary monster... who turns out to be not so scary after all. To Red's relief, there is someone she knows and loves under the furry blue monster costume -- and soon it is Red's turn to do the chasing