An animation film based on the children’s book classic by Johanna Spyri: Heidi, the little orphan girl comes to her grandfather, "Almöhi", who lives all alone in a cabin high up in the mountains. At first the sensitive girl doesn’t feel at ease with her new strange surroundings. Yet, Heidi not only finds a true friend in the bold goat herd Peter, the lucid girl is over time also able to win over the heart of her withdrawn grandfather.