A basket weaver and his cat, Catches Many Mice, save the day when the artisian is ordered to make the perfect basket for the emperor's newborn daughter.
A bitter man living alone with his hoard of gold learns about the power of love after he loses his wealth and takes in an orphan girl who grows up and continues to care for him.
Embittered by a false accusation and disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a life alone with his loom and his gold. Fate steals his gold and replaces it with a golden-haired foundling child.
While eight-year-old Zulviya labors over a loom, weaving a rug just as generations of the women in her Turkoman family have done, she is comforted by imagining a new pattern inspired by the landscape of Afghanistan.
