Thirteen-year-old Ella and her best friends Eileen and Roxana encounter an interdimensional being named Helana during a sleepover, who appears as different benevolent figures to each girl and reveals glimpses of their legendary futures. When Helana tries to leave after accidentally revealing herself and disrupting their timelines, Ella cleverly traps the entity by claiming authority over her domain, forcing Helana to stay as their `genie in a bottle` despite her pleas to return home.
Three middle school girls—Ella, Eileen, and Roxana—discover they've accidentally trapped Helana, a teenage interdimensional being who has been studying their lives and claims they will become legendary figures who transform science, politics, and religion. As they spend a Saturday together at the marketplace and park, the girls navigate typical teenage concerns while learning to trust their mysterious new friend, who exists as energy and requires their touch to survive in their dimension.
Ella, a middle school student, discovers she can communicate telepathically with Helana, an alien being who teaches her about invisible parasitic entities that feed on human emotions and infest their school. When Ella and her friends attempt to help cleanse these `bugs` from infected students using visualization and love, their strange behavior draws unwanted attention from the gothic `Sisters of Darkness, ` who threaten them with cryptic warnings about knowing their true nature.
Ella, a teenage girl, secretly communicates with Helana, a runaway spirit from another dimension who is trapped in a vintage perfume bottle shaped like Aladdin's lamp. As their bond deepens into love, Helana reveals she comes from a higher-dimensional realm where beings are made of energy rather than matter, and explains that they are both part of a cosmic royal family destined to help fix something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
Ella, Eileen, and Roxana navigate the aftermath of their supernatural encounter from the previous day, dealing with threats from wannabe goth witches while Ella carries the perfume bottle containing her spirit friend Helana. When a desperate classmate named Billy asks for help with `Shadow People` he's been seeing, the girls reluctantly agree to perform a sage cleansing ritual at his house, though they're uncertain whether the entities are real or imaginary.
Thirteen-year-old Roxana has a tense conversation with Helana, a telepathic being from another dimension who lives in a perfume bottle, where Roxana demands promises that Helana won't harm her friends and questions her about her powers. When Helana reveals glimpses of Roxana's future involving dating, marriage, and children instead of becoming a nun as planned, Roxana has a panic attack and calls her friend Ella at midnight, who reassures her that she doesn't need to change her life plans immediately.
Eileen befriends Crystal, a troubled girl from a group home who reveals she was sexually assaulted at age twelve during a party with older teens, but refuses to report it due to fear of retaliation in her dangerous neighborhood. Determined to understand Crystal's world, Eileen convinces her friends to bike through Jackson Street, where their psychic friend Helana senses overwhelming emotional pain and explains that both poor and wealthy neighborhoods suffer from deep angst when people's reality doesn't match their dreams of who they're meant to be.
Three teenage girls—Ella, Roxana, and Eileen—seek advice from Eileen's prosecutor father about saving their troubled town, but their nervous behavior and slip-ups reveal they're hiding their friendship with Helana, an interdimensional being they've trapped in a genie bottle. When Helana's existence is exposed, Mr. Callahan takes on a parental role over all the girls including the invisible Helana, grounding them while trying to understand the supernatural situation they've gotten themselves into.
Three middle school friends discover their interdimensional friend Helana can now manifest physically after an emotionally intense night, appearing as a tiny luminous figure who explains her temporary visibility is due to their collective emotional energy. When a suspicious Navy recruiter appears at their school offering a specialized program and reveals he knows about their telepathic abilities, the girls decline his offer and realize Helana's presence has somehow altered their timeline, putting them all in potential danger.
Three high school students, Ella, Roxana, and Eileen, are devastated when they learn that three of their classmates—Shelly, James, and Ronald—have died from taking counterfeit opioid pills laced with a deadly substance at an unauthorized party. Struggling to process their grief, the girls seek comfort from Helana, a spiritual entity who shares her beliefs about what happens after death, though her theories provide little solace for their immediate pain and loss.
When three middle school girls are called to help search for a missing toddler, they reveal mysterious knowledge about dimensional vortexes that leads to the child's rescue, catching the attention of Navy Commander Beaker who has been tracking their alien friend Helana. The girls must now join a special military program to protect Helana, who is trapped in our dimension and slowly transforming into human form, while developing extraordinary telepathic abilities that may be crucial to humanity's future.