 Set deep in the Appalachian mountains around 1920, this American folktale is about a plucky young girl named Mutzmag. In a series of hair-raising and comical adventures, Mutzmag saves her two gullible half-sisters from two backwoods ogres. Mutzmag s mother dies early in the story, and her two teenaged sisters decide to leave their tumble-down shack and seek their fortunes elsewhere. Mutzmag tags along acting as a servant girl to her abusive siblings. The girls lose their way in the forest and end up at the cabin of a wicked witch and her giant husband who plan to kill the girls.