This one-day story exposes the absurdity of war.

A dispute breaks out between a mouse and a frog over access to a watering hole. The frog takes the mouse on his back to show him around the amphibian kingdom, but when a snake rears its head, the mouse unfortunately drowns. The incident leads to a bloody war between the two groups. This very contemporary picture book resurrects a forgotten tale from Antiquity. Elaborate cut-outs in the pages lend the scenes a highly cinematic depth-of-field and great power to this effective denunciation of the absurdity of war.