In a village by the shores of Lake Ontario, there lives a poor man with three daughters. The two older sisters are cruel and vain, while the youngest, the Rough-Face Girl, is kind but scarred from tending the fire. When the mysterious, powerful Invisible Being announces he will marry the woman who can truly see him, the sisters fail. Only the Rough-Face Girl, with her inner beauty and keen perception, looks beyond appearances to discover the truth about the Invisible Being and herself.