‘Oh, Aunt Polly, I don’t know how to be glad enough that you let me come to live with you!’

As soon as the orphaned Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her strict and dutiful maiden aunt, she begins to brighten up everybody’s life. The sick, the lonely and the just plain miserable all fall under her spell and are transformed. Until one day something so terrible happens that even Pollyanna dosen’t know how to feel glad any more.