Quite choosy, this Princess Constance. Numberless suitors have asked for her hand, but not one of them she deems good enough for herself, not even handsome King Thrushbeard. However, she is soon to regret rejecting him, for her father has had enough of her wilfulness and marries her to a poor minstrel. Yoyo and Doc Croc now become witnesses to a miraculous change: forced to hard and even dangerous labour, Constance finds out about the realities of life - and learns to love her "poor" husband without having the slightest idea that he might not be who he pretends to be...