A beautiful princess with skin as white as snow and lips as red as blood lives with her vain and wicked stepmother, the Queen. The Queen, jealous of her stepdaughter’s beauty, forces the princess to work as a scullery maid and wear rags to hide her loveliness. Each day, the Queen consults her magic mirror to ask who the fairest of all is, and each day the mirror reaffirms the princess' surpassing beauty. When the mirror eventually reveals that the stepdaughter has become "the fairest of them all," the Queen, enraged with jealousy, commands a huntsman to take the princess into the forest and kill her. However, the huntsman finds himself unable to harm the innocent girl and begs her to flee.

The princess, now on her own, stumbles upon a tiny cottage in the forest belonging to seven dwarfs. The dwarfs, named after their distinctive characteristics, take pity on her plight and offer her refuge in exchange for housekeeping. They grow to love the princess and warn her to be on guard against her stepmother. Meanwhile, the Queen discovers that the princess is still alive. Consumed with envy, she decides to take matters into her own hands, employing her dark magic to disguise herself. With her new appearance, she concocts a poisoned apple, intending it for the unsuspecting princess, with the aim of eliminating her once and for all.