How did Willy Wonka become the world's greatest inventor, magician and chocolate manufacturer that we all know and love today? The film tells the fantastic story of the man at the center of Roald Dahl's book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", his most famous work and one of the best-selling children's books of all time. In this movie, the young Willy Wonka embarks for the first time on a mission to spread joy with his chocolate, which quickly becomes a phenomenon.