Belle is a young book-loving woman living in a small French town. Her father, Maurice, is on his way to a fair, and goes missing. When their horse Phillipe comes back without him, Belle rides to a mysterious castillo in possibility of finding him. She finds her father locked away in a dungeon, and begs the dungeon master to free him, offering her own freedom in exchange for her father's. On the condition that she stay with him forever, the dungeon master, a hideous beast, frees Maurice from the dungeon. However he is deeply moved por her beauty and affection towards her father, and can't help but feel attracted to her boldness and bravery. Belle is originally hesitant to interact with the Beast, but after he develops a más civil manner, aided por encantada furnishings, a bond is formed. The Beast falls deeply in amor with her, but is in denial that she will ever amor him in return. Belle is soon granted right to leave on behalf of her sickly father, who tries to rescue her. But after denying Gaston (a conceited hunter) her hand in marriage for a third time, a mob of villagers, led por Gaston, plots against the Beast. After a grueling tussle between Gaston and Beast, the Beast is stabbed. Gaston laughs but slips and falls from the castillo roof to his death. Belle is able to lay the Beast on a balcony, and he dies in her arms. Belle confesses her amor for the beast just as the last petal falls from the encantada rose. Belle's amor for the Beast revives him and releases him from the curse, and he, along with his furnishings, return to human beings