Ten-year-old Michael realizes that his bravest toy soldier was made with only one leg. Soon, the Steadfast Tin Soldier falls in love with a toy ballerina and is pushed from the playroom window by a jealous jack-in-the-box. In the perilous outside world, the Tin Soldier faces mischievous lads, a hungry hound, sewer rats and a soldier-swallowing fish in a quest to return to his beloved ballerina.