Badu, our friend from the Tales of Disasters series, is tortured by thoughts in his head, thoughts about the new guy, the stranger from across the bay, the one his boss has employed to tend the garden next to his, and which for some strange reason is producing much better crops. He must be stealing his seedlings! Badu must protect himself! The village must protect itself!!

Rumours circulate and before we know it, the stranger's plot is set alight. But the fire spreads and it falls on the stranger himself to put it out - he has been fixing the villagers' well all this time. Watching all this from their branch in a tree, the Little Girl and her Squirrel friend have a perspective that seems to elude the adults. 

Laida is an interfaith community worker in Mindanao, a Filipino island with a long history of violence. “Even though we might have peace talks, there’s a constant fear they will break down and conflict will resume,” she says. “Having this film here is important. It helps introduce concepts of conflict and peace in a way that makes sense within the day-to-day life of children, and we visit schools of both faiths in the region. We’re also using it as a way to begin discussion with adults – it’s surprised us how useful it has been.”