"Once upon a Time"
Is Timeless
Before Rapunzel's birth, her mother made a dangerous deal with the
sorceress Melisande: If she could not love newborn Rapunzel just as she
appeared, she would surrender the child to Melisande. When Rapunzel was
born completely bald and without hope of ever growing hair, her
horrified mother sent her away with the sorceress to an uncertain
future.
After sixteen years of raising Rapunzel as her own child, Melisande
reveals that she has another daughter, Rue, who was cursed by a wizard
years ago and needs Rapunzel's help. Rue and Rapunzel have precisely
"two nights and the day that falls between" to break the enchantment.
But bitterness and envy come between the girls, and if they fail to work
together, Rue will remain cursed...forever.