The father of little Sarah, whom he calls his "little princess", must go to war, and Sarah must be placed in a boarding school for young girls, whose director is the wicked Miss Mintchin (Demidova).
Sarah had grown up and received an excellent education and a very good teaching in India.
From her first meeting with Sarah, the director takes a dislike to the new little ward and when her father disappears in the war, without news, the amount of the boarding school no longer being paid, Sarah must do the most repulsive chores of the boarding school ..
