Lemony Snicket narrates the incidents of small children Baudelaire that
newly have been orphan after being burnt its elegant mansion, heirs of a
great fortune, suddenly its lives are wrapped in serious danger due to the
Count's greed who attempts by all possible means, to keep the great
inheritance. The children pass this way to fall under the custody of
kindred eccentrics relatives who are being eliminated by the evil Count
Olaf.
Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire are three intelligent young children who
receive terrible news that their parents have died in a fire and have left
them an enormous fortune not to be used until the eldest child is of age.
When they are sent to live with Count Olaf, a greedy distant relative, they
soon learn he is trying to steal their fortune for himself.
This is the story of the Bauedelaires, three young orphans, Violet, Klaus
and Sunny, looking for a new home, who are taken in by a series of odd
relatives and other people, including Lemony Snicket, who narrates the
film, and starting with the cunning and dastardly Count Olaf, who hopes to
snatch their inheritance from them. Violet is the oldest of the Baudelaires
at 14, and is their brave and fast-thinking leader. The only boy is middle
child Klaus, 12, who is intensely intelligent and obsessed with words. The
youngest is infant Sunny, who speaks in a language only her siblings can
understand, and she has a tendency to, bite...
After the tragic death of their parents, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny
Baudelaire travel from guardian to guardian by a good friend of their
parents, Mr. Poe. The orphans stay with herpetologist Montgomery Montgomery
and grammar-wise Josephine Anwhistle, but the worst one was Count Olaf, an
evil and greedy man, who, with the help of his assistants, the bald man,
the hook-handed man, the person of indeterminable gender, and the two
white-faced women, tries to steal the Baudelaire fortune. To do this, he
disguises himself in the forms of assistant, Stephano, and ship captain,
Julio Sham.