Cinderella (Ella) she is a daughter of whose merchant father remarries following the death of her mother. Eager to support her loving father, Ella welcomes her new stepmother and her daughters Anastasia and Drisella into the family . But, when Ella's father unexpectedly passes away, she finds herself at the mercy of a jealous and cruel new family. Finally relegated to nothing more than a servant girl covered in ashes, and spitefully renamed Cinderella, Ella could easily begin to lose hope. Yet, despite the cruelty inflicted upon her, Ella is determined to honor her mother's dying words and to "have courage and be kind. She will not give in to despair nor despise those who mistreat her. And then there is the dashing stranger she meets in the woods. Unaware that he is really a prince, not merely an apprentice at the Palace, Ella finally feels she has met a kindred soul. It appears her fortunes may be about to change.
The King invites every eligible maiden to attend to a ball for the Prince returning home, and he shall pick one of them to become his bride. The stepmothers forbid her from going and she is forced to stay at home.
Her fairy godmother appears and turns a pumpkin and mice into a beautiful horse and Carriage with footmen. She turns Cinderella's rag dress into a beautiful ball gown. She then goes to the ball and dances all night with the Prince. She leaves at midnight and everything goes back to the way it was, she losing a slipper on the steps. It is too late to turn back and pick it up, the prince finds the slipper. And the prince doesn't even get her name but is sure that she is the one who he will marry. He sends out his servants and with the glass slipper that she left behind the servants must try it on every maiden that went to the ball. The prince visits the home of Cinderella; the two sisters trying to fit in to the slipper, but Cinderella puts the slipper on her foot and it fits. Cinderella and the prince got married and they live happily ever after.