A princess, confined by a curse to a remote hermitage awaiting true love's kiss, divides her days between waiting for besotted suitors and disposing of their corpses. However, when the princess unwittingly traps a thief in her larder, he delights in telling her that the peasants know her as a witch rather than a royal. The princess determines that she will end her curse by cutting herself off from the world, but when the thief becomes ill, she desperately seeks help to save him—until she learns that it's not a magic curse plaguing her... it's the dreaded sweating sickness.