An elderly Egyptian servant tells the allegorical story of the white-footed gazelle, a series of vignettes tethered together by shared characters and themes. When finished, the servant suggests that beasts are not confined to fairy tales and also exist, in the form of common people, in everyday life.

A stubborn, lower-class woman holds on to the hope that an ancient horse will awaken for her. Its transcendent power provides a refuge amid family troubles and threats from an invading people called the feverborn.

When a heartbroken court doctor is banished to a remote village in the Middle East, he gets summoned to help a hermit couple with an unusual medical procedure.

Three myths from human groups on other planets describe the origin of humanity, and the necessity of respecting nature.

When a group of farmers notice that they’re being robbed in the night, they discover the culprit to be a loveable skeletal horse.

A military captain captures a giant white camel in the Sahara while on his conquests in the desert. The captain is determined to prove himself a more worthy rider than its previous owner, who was his enemy in combat.

When a human couple loses their half-human, half-centaur child, the father must put aside his pain and mother her fear in order to bring the child back to safety.

A mechanical mother bird tells her three children two stories: one of patricide, and the other of a human and a mechanical being and their marriage.

In a world where magical creatures have gone extinct and unicorn bones fetch a high price, one man encounters the opportunity of a lifetime, and must decide whether to risk a costly gamble.

A poor Armenian boy in California adds a little bit of magic to his life when his cousin steals a gleaming white horse for them to ride.