A kind man nurses a sparrow back to health. His wife sees only what she can take from it. The story doesn't lecture you about greed, it shows you how it eats someone alive, how jealousy makes you willing to destroy the one thing your husband actually loves. This is folk wisdom that works because it trusts you to understand the cost without being told. By the end, you're not thinking about a fable. You're thinking about the people in your life who've already made their choice between kindness and wanting more.

A kind old man, his greedy wife and an injured sparrow are at the center of this film version of a traditional Japanese fable. The short fantasy tale looks at how greed, friendship and jealousy shape the three of them, setting the old man's good nature against his wife's avarice as the story of the wounded bird unfolds.