Maleficent is a good fairy that lives in the magic kingdome of the Moors. One day she meets a human boy named Stefan and they become friends and, after they grow up, lovers. Then King Henry from the human kingdom decides to attack the Moors and is defeated by Maleficent, in his deathbed, Henry promises that whoever kills Maleficent will become the next king and Stefan, blinded by his ambition, drugs Maleficent to kill her but when he can't do it, he cuts her wings instead. This betrayal makes Maleficent become evil and curse Aurora, Stefan's daughter, to fall into a death-like slumber after pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning-wheel before her 16th birthday. Terrified, Stefan burns all the spinning-wheels, sends his daughter away to be raised by the good fairies not knowing who she really is and tries to find a way to kill Maleficent, but Maleficent manages to find Aurora and watches her grow until one day they start talking. Maleficent starts caring about Aurora and tries to remove the curse, but fails. On the day of her sixteenth birthday Aurora learns the truth and the curse takes place, but is broken by Maleficent. While Maleficent is in the castle she gets her wings back and fights Stefan, until he falls and dies. At the end, Maleficent becomes a good fairy again and Aurora becomes the new queen of the Moors, uniting both the human and the magic realms.