A girl named Camilla Cream secretly loves lima beans but doesn't want to eat them because she worries about others' opinions of her. On the first day of school, Camilla wakes up to find herself completely covered in rainbow stripes. If the stripes were not bad enough, Camilla's skin develops everything people suggest she has - someone says "checkerboards", another says "bacteria", and she breaks out in checkerboard pattern and bacteria tails. When the doctor, specialists, experts, and many others cannot figure out what's causing the stripes, a little old woman appears with what just might be the cure.
