Mildred's fantasy was to escape her life of poverty by seducing a wealthy older man who would obviously then marry her. She did not know that the man she selected was not a man, but a gnome who had very different plans in mind.

Seduced, impregnated, and deserted by the gnome, Mildred hides in the forest where she raises her daughter, Salomie, with the help of the sylphs. When Salomie becomes a young woman Mildred decides to move into town, but along they way they meet a friendly man who lets them stay at his inn. Mildred marries him, but he secretly lusts for Salomie and after the marriage sets out to seduce his stepdaughter. But Salomie is a gnome-human hybrid and anyone who has sex with her bursts into flames and dies.

Mildred thereby inherits the inn, but when the gnome arrives and figures out that she has done away with the innkeeper, he blackmails Mildred to letting him use her body any way he wishes. Salomie realizes that only she has the ability to save her mother from repeated bdsm at the hands of the gnome is by using her newly discovered ability. That is, provided she can entice the gnome meet her in the orchard.

This is an adult fairy tale with sexual situations including rough sex with a gnome, female-female interaction with sylphs, and fiery male-female sex.

But it is also a fairy tale.