A naïve girl just out of a cloistered orphanage finds that being a “good fairy” to strangers makes life awfully complicated.

A barber in the court of King Louis XV, Monsieur Beaucaire, falls in love with a beautiful maid. When the king has had enough of the inept barber’s shenanigans, Beaucaire is led to the guillotine where he is about to lose his head!