An inventor has a big dream of creating an artificial human being. But before he can complete Edward, he dies of a heart attack. From then on, Edward lives alone in his castle and has scissors where his hands should actually be. One day, his life takes a turn when the Avon representative Peg enters the castle. Peg takes in the boy with the scissor hands. He quickly endears himself to the neighborhood by trimming their bushes into various shapes and later even styling the hair of the women of the suburb. However, when he falls in love with Peg's daughter Kim and abuses her boyfriend Edward for his own purposes, this initial enthusiasm slowly begins to fade.