A wealthy widower hires a small-town girl to live in his guesthouse and pretend to be a famous cartoon princess, in order to draw his little girl out of a deep depression, caused by the death of her mother.
A troubled psychiatrist goes in search of five schizophrenics who have escaped from a local mental institution. Infiltrating their makeshift mountain outpost, the doctor comes face to face with his own fears, limitations, and forsaken hopes as he becomes acquainted with the patients and their humorously poignant struggles.
