A young girl named Clara is at a Christmas party for her uncle and aunt Drosselmeyer, at midnight she gets a present of a nutcracker. After she goes to sleep, she wakes up to hear mice running around her room, but finds a man in her room. He tells her to be quiet and that they have to escape. Then seven brothers come to steal Clara away and she decides to run away with the Nutcracker. She needs to find out why the brothers want her, while keeping her own hot feelings about the Nutcracker to herself.