Pippi Longstocking is a care free, incredibly strong girl who lives with her dad and his crew on a boat. When her father is lost at sea, she moves into his villa in a little village to wait for him to return. There she becomes the target of two thieves who are after her treasure and the awful mrs. Prysselius who thinks she should be send to an orphanage. She befriends the two kids from next door and creates chaos wherever she goes. She shakes things up in what was once a quiet little town.