Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow. Orphaned & sent to live with her uncle in his austere manor on the moors, Mary Lennox is a lonely & unhappy child. A meeting with Dickon, her servant's brother begins her adventure & it is through their friendship & her relationship with her troubled hypochondriac cousin Colin that she begins to learn about herself. Their lives all begin to change when a Robin shows Mary the door to a mysterious secret garden.