Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

When Madeline's long lost uncle Horst arrives to take her to a Viennese finishing school, Miss Clavel, the eleven little girls and Pepito realize that something is not right.

故事发生在法国巴黎的一间女子寄宿学校里，讲述小主人公麦德兰跟其他十一个小女孩，以及她们的修女老师之间妙趣横生的故事。每天早晨，老师都会带着她们一起出去玩耍，她们唱歌跳舞，彼此相爱。年岁最小的麦德兰看上去瘦瘦小小的，可她却非常的聪明跟勇敢。好几次，大家遇到的危险或者困难的时候，麦德兰都成功地解决了问题。故事不仅发生在巴黎，还有伦敦甚至北极地区，麦德兰跟小朋友的奇遇记，每天都在上演着。 本部动画片由美籍澳大利亚作家Ludwig Bemelmans于1939年写的儿童作品《麦德兰》改编而成。