This heart-touching story is about a one-legged tin soldier who stands out from his fellow tin comrades due to a missing leg, yet remains brave and steadfast. He is very fond of a delicate paper ballerina, believing she also stands on one leg like him. However, one day, fate takes a cruel turn and the poor soldier falls out of a window. Two boys passing by put the tin soldier in a newspaper boat and send him sailing down the gutter. What adventures await the poor soldier? Will he be able to survive in that awful gutter? Will he be able to return home and marry the beautiful paper ballerina? Read this emotional and deeply symbolic story to find out.