On Christmas Eve, the parents are decorating the hugetree set up in the living room. The siblings, Marie and Fritz do not stop arguing even around the tree. The invited children arrive one by one, friendships are formed, the boys make pranks with the little girls. The presentation of the gifts begins. There are lots of cute toys, fairy tale characters and puppets in the decorative boxes under the tree. The children's funny godfather, Uncle Drosselmeyer stumbles in late, bringing special refurbished toys in his bag. Marie likes an old nutcracker puppet. After the excitement of the evening, the little girl falls asleep under the Christmas tree hugging her new toy. In her dream, images of the recent events appear, puppets and toys come to life, and then suddenly mice overrun the whole room, led by the evil Mouse King. The Nutcracker Prince and his friends help the girl, and after the land of snowflakes they arrive at the Cake Palace, where Sugarplum Fairy and The Lord of Cake Palace with his team of confectioners guide them to more and more wonderful places in the magical fairytale world. The series of adventures begins. In Marie's dream, as Princess Marie, she dances with Prince Nutcracker. The little girl’s sometimes terrifying, and other times wonderful dreams appear in the story, in which, at the end, the family hugs each other together again on Christmas Eve.