A farmer and his son own nothing but a donkey, and they lose it anyway because they can't stop listening to strangers. The fable moves through each voice that derails them, each opinion more confident than the last, until you realize the real lesson isn't about stubbornness or compromise. It's about the kind of person you become when you never decide what you actually believe.

A farmer and his young son set out through the countryside to sell their donkey at a horse auction. Along the way, every person they pass offers a different opinion on how the trip should be made. With each new voice, the father drops his own common sense and changes course to please whoever crosses their path, and the pair never think for themselves. Their efforts to satisfy everyone lead to disaster, and they end up losing the donkey. Drawn faithfully from one of Aesop's fables, this early educational film is a short lesson about the cost of letting other people's words do your thinking.