An adaptation of Oscar Wilde's prose. The story of a child found in the forest, who was taken in by a poor woodcutter's family. The boy grew up to be a handsome but arrogant and selfish young man. One day, a beggar woman arrived in the village claiming to be his real mother. The boy banished her from the village, unable to accept the fact that he was the son of a woman of such low status. With time, however, he realized the cruelty of his actions and decided to find her and ask for forgiveness.