The movie begins as an animated fairytale. The damsel in distress Giselle and the handsome prince are about to be married, but the girl's wicked stepmother wants to keep them apart. In order to do this, she thrusts Giselle into New York City. Giselle finds a friend in pessimistic New York divorce lawyer Robert and his young daughter Morgan. Giselle is naive and completely idealistic, and Robert is pessimistic and negative. She believes the true love is everything, while he doesn't even believe it exists. These two worlds come together and meet somewhere in the middle: Giselle discovers that fairy tale life is not for her, and Robert decides that maybe there's something more than life than what he thinks.