""A half-ruined merchant lives in the country with his son Ludovic and his three daughters. Two of the daughters F?licie and Ad?la?de are real shrews selfish pretentious and evil. They exploit the third daughter Belle as a servant. One day on a business trip on the way home the merchant gets lost in a forest and enters a strange castle. He picks up a rose for Belle and the castle`s owner appears. He is a monster half-human half-beast and possesses magic powers. He sentences the merchant to death unless he gives up one of his daughters. Belle sacrifices herself for her father and goes to the castle discovering that the Beast is not so wild and inhuman as he seems.""