Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are three children who have been unexpectedly orphaned after a terrible fire has killed their parents and destroyed the only home they’ve ever known. Without much choice in the matter, all three are sent to live with Count Olaf, who is supposedly a relative but whom the children have never met. I don’t know about you, but something definitely sounds fishy about this whole arrangement! As A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning begins to slowly unfold, it turns out, their instincts are correct — Count Olaf doesn’t have good intentions whatsoever. He only wants the three Baudelaires for one reason and one reason only. He is determined to get his hands on the substantial Baudelaire fortune, no matter the cost.