A mild-mannered zookeeper has to contend with his tyrannical boss and a talking lovesick bear.

A silent, lyrical short in which a boy’s newly won goldfish is threatened by the family cat, and saved through a quiet act of animal solidarity.

Tells how a wispy old woman cultivates a potted string bean plant with a tender devotion akin to love and plants it in a row of blossoming white shrubs in the Tuileries Garden in Paris.