Despite the derision of their neighbors, a young French boy and his family befriend the lonely painter who comes to their town and begin to admire his unusual paintings.

In this version of the classic fairy tale "Rapunzel," the daughter of two hairdressers is locked in a tower by the Bad Hair Witch.

Paul's father, the artist Paul Cézanne has been away from home for so long that the boy hardly recognizes his father when he returns. But the two soon become fast friends. The local townspeople laugh at the artist's pictures. But young Paul likes the art. An influential art dealer comes from Paris the lives of the artist and his son change dramatically.

A brief biography of the English girl whose discovery of an Ichthyosaurus skeleton in 1811 when she was twelve led to a life-long interest in fossils and other important discoveries.