The day the little girl with an artichoke for a heart meets the boy with a heart of stone, she fell madly in love with him. Every day she offers him a leaf from her heart, and every day he rejects it, growing nastier and nastier. The little girl's heart grows ever smaller, and soon she has lost all will to live. But clearly, the boy with a heart of stone does not seem at all ready to let himself love her back…