Esméralda, a beautiful Gypsy street dancer with a kind and generous heart, captures the hearts of many men, including those of Captain Phoebus and Pierre Gringoire, a poor street poet, but especially those of Quasimodo and his adoptive father, Claude Frollo, the Archdeacon of Notre Dame. Frollo is torn between his obsessive lust and the rules of the church. He orders Quasimodo to kidnap her, but the hunchback is captured by Phoebus and his guards, who save Esméralda. Gringoire, witnessing all this, accidentally trespasses into the Court of Miracles, home of the Truands. He was about to be hanged under the orders of Clopin Trouillefou, the King of Truands, until Esméralda saved his life by marrying him.