Sara Crewe is the pampered darling of her father, a wealthy army colonel, and the Victorian London girls' school where she lives. But when her father dies and her fortune is lost, Sara becomes an outcast. Through friendship, imagination and her own resolute nature the "little princess" finds her way back to happiness. Based on the heartwarming novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden) and starring Maureen Lipman, Miriam Margolyes, Amelia Shankley, Nigel Havers and David Yelland.