Where once there was, there was once a kingdom, and there lived a good king whose wife died and left behind two princesses. And there lived a wicked foster mother who thought that when the queen died, she would take her place. But after a while the king brought a new wife, good and noble, who loved his two children very much. And when the twins were born together, happiness and joy reigned in the kingdom. But this the wicked foster-mother could not bear to see, so she schemed against the queen wherever she could…

A new teacher arrives at the school and discovers in sixth-grader Linda a talented and sensitive girl who bravely struggles with the growing problems of her age. "Magic" awakens in her the will to overcome the insurmountable - to believe in herself. The fact that Linda is able to pass on her experience to her little protégé, first-grader Mishka, is proof that she has succeeded.