The aircraft crash forces a story narrator, which is also the author's alter ego, to land in the middle of the desert. It has a supply of drinking water barely for a week and therefore has to repair the engine as quickly as possible. On the first day it will be tired after all -day work and at dawn, still a thousand kilometers from the nearest human dwelling, awaken him with a special voice that asks him to draw a lamb ... an allegorical fairy tale for children and adults who think about lost youth and look for life wisdom, is one of the most important works of its kind.

It has been translated into two hundred and fifty languages ​​and has sold more than one hundred and forty million copies to this day.