In a mansion surrounded by green meadows and manicured gardens, lived a rich man with his young daughter. The girl was the portrait of her late mother: sweet, patient, and possessing a beauty that seemed to emanate from within. However, seeking a new home for his daughter, the man married a woman who brought with her two daughters from her first marriage. Beneath their good-looking faces, the three hid arid hearts and cruel minds. After the father's sudden death, the stepmother's true nature flourished like a weed. They stripped the young girl of her silk dresses, forced her to sleep in the attic on a straw mattress, and condemned her to the hardest chores of the house. She cleaned the ashes from the chimney from sunrise to sunset, and since she was always stained with dust and soot, her stepsisters began to call her Cinderella with contempt.
