A slow and ugly fairy tale based on the drawings of inmates at a psychiatric clinic where LaLoux worked.

Piel, a 7 or 8 year old boy, is alone on the desert planet Perdide, only survivor of an attack by giant hornets. Calling for help, Piel's father's friend Jaffar keeps contact with the kid and hurries across space toward Perdide.

The Captive is a sketch-piece made by René Laloux and Philippe Caza in preparation for the future more carefully produced work. It is based on comics by Caza and relates an enigmatic story of two children who come to a city of silence and discover that a mysterious female prisoner is kept in the tallest tower.

In a distant planetoid, an industrious but hapless old farmer strives to make his vegetables flourish, however, to no avail.

1988 film by René Laloux

1973 animated film directed by René Laloux