In this animated film from Yoram Gross, a young girl must solve a magic riddle in order to gain her inheritance from her grandfather, who has constructed the riddle to protect the inheritance from the girl's wicked stepmother.
As the closing credits make explicit, the film draws inspiration from classic folktales and 'the original fairy stories of Hans Christian Andersen, Carlo Lorenzini, and The Brothers Grimm.' The film is explicitly and self-consciously book-oriented, beginning with a montage of a grandmother reading to her young grandmother before fading into 'Once upon a time ...' before the film proper begins.
