When Mary, a spoiled English girl, loses both parents in a plague, she is sent to live in the dark and gloomy Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire, England. There lives her aloof, hunchbacked uncle, Archibald Craven, whom she has never met, and who doesn't even want to see her. Mary has no friends to play with, no one to talk to, and nothing to do. But one day a friendly housemaid tells her about a mysterious hidden garden somewhere on the grounds. Where is the secret garden? And why did her uncle lock it up and hide the key? As Mary investigates, she discovers a beauty she never knew before, and uncovers an even greater secret, hidden away down the long corridors of the lonely mansion