Cinderella is the story of a young woman who finds herself in a terrible set of circumstances. When the girl's mother died, her father remarried. For his second wife, the girl's father married a woman who not only commanded and controlled him, but treated Cinderella terribly. When the prince organized a ball, Cinderella was forbidden to attend, Cinderella's fairy godmother appeared and went to work to send Cinderella to the ball.