Once upon a time a great White Bear tapped on the window pane of a poor man's cottage and offered to make him as rich as he was then poor, if he would only give him the youngest and most beautiful of his daughters. So begins this most romantic fairy tale, in which the four winds themselves play a part. It is an epic story of a bewitched prince and the determined girl who loves him; a tale of rags and riches, hags and heroism, magic and mystery, a curse and a quest, wicked trolls and some of the longest noses vou will ever have seen