In the Age of Enlightenment, people thought they lived in "the best of all possible worlds" because of the power of human reason. Armed with that belief, our naive hero, Candide, ventures out into the big wide world expecting to find truth, beauty and wonder. He finds instead pestilence, plague, and pox (to name but a few)!

Some 40 fast-paced scenes whisk our hero around the globe - and us along with him - in a galloping, humorous and touching trip.

Where does he end up? Right back where he started -  but with a slightly changed view of life. Yes, there's evil. Yes, there's good. And when it's all tallied up, it's not such a bad life after all. (It helps, of course, that he gets the girl in the end!)