The king is so pleased with the old man's sincerity, cleverness, and wisdom that he dismisses his jealous and greedy chief counselor and appoints the old man in his place.
As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.
As he spends hours studying his father's world map, a young boy escapes the hunger and misery of refugee life. 'Based on the author's childhood in Kazakhstan, where he lived as a Polish refugee during World War II.