A fairy-tale about a conceited young man and a young woman with a tyrannical step-mother, who must overcome magical trials in order to be together.

Once upon a time there was a kind and quiet old man with a grumpy and domineering old woman. The old man had his own daughter - a modest, beautiful and hard-working Nastya, and the old woman had her own - envious, couch potato, and the plain woman Marfushka. Once in the forest, Nastya meets her fate, a young man Ivan, whose beauty and power conquered a lot of girlish hearts. But pride and rudeness played a cruel joke with him - in front of the frightened Nastenka, the forest sorcerer turns Ivan's beautiful face into a bearish face. So he stayed on until he learns to do good deeds.—Peter-Patrick76 ([email protected])

Strong, handsome Ivan is used to get his way easily, especially with girls, even overpowers robber single-handed. Venturing deep into the enchanted forest, he incurs the anger of a vanishing dwarf who magically gives him a bear's head and later tells him only kind deeds can redeem his human form. Ivan still falls in mutual seduction with Nadia 'Nastenka', a goody two-shoe abused like her father by mean stepmother Marfushka in favor of the spoiled-rotten, ugly, lazy stepsister, supposedly destined for a princely marriage. Good magic is represented in the forest by father frost, who wants to help.—KGF Vissers