"Black Beauty" is narrated as an autobiographical memoir told by the titular horse named Black Beauty—beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm with his mother, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. Along the way, he meets with many hardships and recounts many tales of cruelty and kindness.

A young girl named Lyndsey Blue finds out she was given away by a nurse/midwife and she finds out who her real mum is. Will Lyndsey do something she'll regret later on in life...