The child kidnapper, the hideous, evil dwarf hunchback Rumpelstiltskin, has lain at the bottom of the sea, cursed by a good sorceress from the 15th century to the present day. He, turned into a greenish stone, buys in an antique store widow killed by a bandit policeman, left alone with a little son.

The saleswoman, who looks like a witch, says that the stone fulfills wishes. Rumpelstiltskin fulfills the woman’s wish and revives her husband. But the fulfillment of the wish has broken the spell and the dwarf wants payment – her child.