Mufaro's two beautiful daughters, on bad-tempered, one kind and sweet, go before the king, who is choosing a wife.

In this version of Cinderella set in Egypt in the sixth century B.C., Rhodopes, a slave girl, eventually comes to be chosen by the Pharaoh to be his queen.

One of the rats that was turned into a coachman by Cinderella's fairy godmother tells his story.

Although she is mocked and mistreated by her two older sisters, an Indian maiden wins a mighty invisible warrior for her husband with her kind and honest heart.