Meeting one day in a plastic surgeon's office, the mothers of Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Snow White—Gwendolyn, Marguerite, and Elsinora, respectively—air their grievances with their daughters and their lot in life. Whereas the tabloids and the court of public opinion have condemned them, nicknaming them 'wickeds', they each listen to one another's story, hearing the reasonable causes they had to do what they did. Marguerite took Rapunzel because her father was a serial sexual assaulter who raped Marguerite—upon hearing that she was having a girl, Rapunzel's mother worried that he would do the same to her, thus Marguerite had her hand Rapunzel over; Gwendolyn went to extreme ends to have her ugly daughters married, knowing that Cinderella would have no trouble finding a suitor; Elsinora grounded Snow White for trying to sneak out to meet a boy, but Snow White ran away and spread the rumor that she tried to kill her. After airing their grievances, the three mothers decide to exact their revenge on their daughters by killing them at the upcoming fayre. Enlisting the help of the fairy godmother, they discover that Snow White had the magic mirror cursed to say vicious things to her mother, and Cinderella paid to have her prince bewitched. Upon retrieving horses from the for-hire fairy godmother, they also learn that Snow White had taken advantage of the poor dwarfs, so they poisoned her and left the prince to find her to get her off their hands. The wickeds disguise themselves as men and arrive at the fayre with the intent to kill their daughters, but instead find their daughters leading an incredibly unhappy life. All of them bore daughters of their own, and all of them fight with them just as they had with their mothers before them. Realizing that violence would not end this cycle, the daughters, mothers, and grandmothers band together to go into the unexplored land and carve out their own destinies—one not written by hands unseen.