A young woman, daughter of royalty, is forbidden to leave the castle grounds. She is trained in how to be a lady or a princess while her parents work on arranging her marriage. A beloved nanny tells the girl stories while they pass the seasons under an apple tree in the walled garden. The stories are fairy tales of princesses in peril and their hearts and kingdoms won by a handsome prince. She begins to dream of a prince that comes to rescue her. In her boredom, she learns skills and about the wider world after discovering the books in her father's library. Is she rescued in the end? Or does she use her own resources to make the life she hopes for.