The robber Hotzenplotz has stolen Grandma’s coffee grinder, and Kasperl and Seppel decide to stop the bandit. They find the thief’s haunt, but are taken prisoners. Seppel is set to clean up the place, and Kasperl is sold to magician Petrosilius Zwackelmann. The future for the two looks bleak if it wasn’t for The Good Fairy and Superintendent Dimpfelmoser’s entrance on stage …