Based on a 13th-century European legend, Ladyhawke is the enchanted story of a porcelain-skinned beauty (Michelle Pfeiffer), a stalwart, black-shrouded knight (Rutger Hauer)...and The Mouse. Once the knight and the lady were lovers. Now the demonic curse of the jealous Bishop of Aquila (John Wood) has fated them to be "always together, eternally apart." By day, she is a hawk; by night, he is a wolf. Only as night turns into day can they share a sorrowful glimpse of what they once had been.

For two years the anguished knight has roamed the countryside, seeking a way to break into the Bishop's stronghold and end the evil spell--or die in the attempt. Then he learns of The Mouse's miraculous escape and uses a little unknightly persuasion to convince Phillipe that what gets out must--somehow--be able to get back in!