Charlie, a young aristocrat in turn of the century England, meets a boy named Frank on the road to Portsmouth. What Charlie doesn't realize is that Frank is actually Frances, who's donned a disguise to escape working at a brothel. Charlie takes Frank/Frances into his home, and when he discovers her true identity, the two become lovers. He sends her to London to be trained by his mistress in the art of sex, but she learns much more about her identity as a woman. Before the opening credits, explicitly on-screen it reads: "Based on the famous Victorian erotic novel by an anonymous writer".
故事发生在充满了异域风情的阿拉伯王国阿格拉巴，阿拉丁（梅纳·马苏德 Mena Massoud 饰）出生在一个贫穷的家庭之中，但这并没能够妨碍他成长为一个善良而有乐观的青年。一次偶然中，阿拉丁邂逅了茉莉公主（娜奥米·斯科特 Naomi Scott 饰），茉莉公主不满足于父亲为她安排的政治联姻，想要接替国王的宝座，亲手带领国家走向富强。与众不同的茉莉公主一下子就吸引了阿拉丁的注意，两人在经历了几次意外之后渐渐的走到了一起。
