Precocious and ambitious young Emma Woodhouse has decided she rather likes matchmaking, having just attended the wedding of her friend and governess Miss Taylor, a union Emma gladly takes credit for.
With this in mind, she turns her attentions to the Vicar, Mr. Elton and his obvious interest in her new friend, Harriet.
Plans within plans and schemes in schemes pile up, turn around, and backfire in this elegant comedy of manners and high society.