A pilot recalls his young life and his aspirations to be an artist, but his dreams are quenched by the adults that surround him. He decides to take up piloting and on one trip as he flies across the Sahara Desert, his plane crashes. One night he awakes to a young boy in the desert with him. The boy, who the pilot comes to know as the little prince, asks him to draw him a sheep to help him on his planet — an asteroid known by some as the asteroid B-612. The little prince slowly reveals details about his life and his planet, telling the pilot that his planet is infested with baobabs and that it is so small that he fears they may take over the entirety of his home. As the pilot attempts to fix his plane the little prince begins to ask him many questions about flowers and sheep to which the pilot gets irritated. He snaps at the little prince, but the little prince gets angry and tells the pilot that he is acting too much like a grown-up. The little prince in his rage reveals that there is a single flower on his planet that he loves and that he is afraid his new sheep might eat. The flower, though very vain and slightly rude, was cared for by the little prince. However, the little prince realizes that he could not properly love the flower so he decides to leave his planet — unsure if he will return. He leaves his planet by using a flock of birds and comes across many different planets. On the first he finds a King who says he rules over everything, but never leaves his tiny planet. On the second planet he finds a conceited man who wants only to be admired. On the third planet he finds a tippler who drinks to forget that he is ashamed of drinking. On the fourth planet he finds a businessman who says he owns all the stars. The fifth planet is the smallest which contains a single lamplighter who must light and extinguish a lamp every minute because of the shortness of the days. The sixth planet has a geographer who has never explored a planet himself and who reveals to the little prince that the flower which the little prince loves is ephemeral. Finally, the little prince comes to earth where he first discovers a snake who tells him that he can help him return home if he gets homesick. Then he comes across a naive flower and later a tall mountain. Eventually, he finds himself in a garden full of roses that look exactly like his flower. He becomes sad as he realizes that his flower is not as unique as he had previously thought. He leaves and begins to cry when a fox approaches him and asks the little prince to tame him. The little prince does and they become close, but the little prince must leave and the two are saddened. The fox imparts on him that it is the time spent with something that makes it unique to someone. The little prince realizes that his rose is special to him because he has cared for it. Next he meets a railway switchman and a merchant who perplex the little prince. Finally, he meets the pilot in the desert and helps him find water at a well. The little prince tells the pilot that he has to return to his flower on his planet and the pilot discovers that he is going to do so by getting bit by the snake. The little prince reassures the pilot that though it may look like he is dead, he is actually returning to his planet to care for his flower. The pilot watches as the little prince falls in the sand and later realizes that he did not draw a muzzle for the sheep and he questions if the sheep will eat the flower on the little prince’s planet.