The story of the little prince is a magical fairy tale written for both young and old. It is a timeless tale, as for fifty-four years now, it has been leaving those who read it speechless with emotion.

A pilot, tired of his relationship with people, lives withdrawn from them. During one of his flights, he is forced to land in the Sahara desert because his plane breaks down. He finds himself in the middle of nowhere, with just enough water supplies for eight days. There he meets the little prince, a golden child from an unknown planet as big as a house. The little prince has been traveling for a year, visiting new planets, wanting to see and learn. He is beautiful and sensitive, relentless and transparent, curious and perceptive as only children can be.

The pilot, while struggling to repair his broken plane and worrying about his survival, is forced to confront a fairy-tale creature who is in love with a rose, comforts his loneliness with sunsets, has only three tiny volcanoes, and longs to have a little lamb—even if it is just a drawing and cannot be seen because it is enclosed in a box.

The little prince, through the fresh memories of his journey, unfolds before the pilot's eyes all the frivolity, arrogance, misery, thirst for power and money, and the loneliness of people. [...]

(from the translator's note)