Summary

In the vaulted gothic towers of the Notre-Dame lives Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell ringer. Although he bears a compassionate soul, Quasimodo is burdened by his unfortunate figure so hideous and repulsive that it makes everyone quail. Mocked and shunned for his unsightly appearance, he is sparingly pitied by Esmeralda, a beautiful gypsy girl whom he becomes completely devoted to at a distance. Esmeralda however, has also unknowingly seized the heart of the sinister Archdeacon Claude Frollo. When she rejects his lecherous approaches and falls for somebody else, Frollo is enraged and hatches a plot to end her. Despite Quasimodo’s best attempts to save Esmeralda, she is finally hung to her death for the apparent murder of a captain and deal with black magic. At this unraveling turmoil, Quasimodo kills Claude Frollo and disappears from the scene forever. That is, until one day when a gravedigger stumbles upon Esmeralda’s remains, to find the corpse of a hunchback curled around her.