Adapted from the novel by acclaimed children's writer Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess is a family feature that weaves the rich mythology of India with universal themes of friendship and love. Sara Crewes (Matthews) is a young, precocious child who is transported from her carefree home in the Indian jungles to a jungle of a different kind – New York. Enrolled in a boarding school with a stern headmistress after her widowed father was sent to war, Sara must face hardships of the school alone when her father is believed to have died in battle.