Ara is the daughter of Peter, the miller, and Amelie, the finest spinner and weaver in Belstrumburg. She learns to spin and weave from her mother. It is an idyllic life until tragedy strikes and her father utters the fateful words, "My daughter can spin straw into gold." Rumplestiltskin is a story hundreds of years old, but people who think they know it are oh, so very wrong.