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A modern fairy tale movie for children and young people. 8-year-old Lotte and her father Helge, who is the Queen's bodyguard, move in with Kristin, a former beauty queen, and her daughter Vendela. Kristin is extremely preoccupied with bodies and appearances, and she tries to pass this fixation on to Vendela, and by-and-by to Lotte as well. Kristin's ambition is for Vendela to become Little Miss Norway at a beauty contest for children. And she has no limitations on how far she’ll go to achieve her goal! Lotte is also in the contest an suddenly it becomes clear to her that her stepmother will do anything to keep Lotte from entering and make Vendela a winner and she uses Lotte’s father, the Queen and a magic potion to make her wishes come true…

A fairy tale movie in a Roald Dahl setting, with elements from horror movies. Here we find the motherless girl, the evil stepmother, a magic ointment that will make the world a more evil place if the good forces are not victorious, and good old love and deceit.