Young Mustafa gets very bored in his father's shop in Morocco especially when his father tries to teach him new languages. One day he runs from the shop to the marketplace and is able to welcome tourists in their native languages. In gratitude they follow Mustafa back to his father's shop and buy new things.
While visiting her grandmother, Nora joins with the animated toys from an old chest to bring the stars down from the night sky, but their loss makes the day black and sad.
Nora's outdoor tea party with her toys at the home of some friendly geese is disrupted by Benji, the greedy sheep from next door, but he eventually makes amends.