A 6-year-old girl is momentarily staying with her father in Paris. He buys her a bunch of peaches and puts a perfect one on the plate before her while he eats the worst one. Out of his peach comes a little bug, which they call Gaston. She asks if he will kill Gaston, but he refuses: it wouldn’t be fair to kill someone whose house he just consumed. The little girl comes to like Gaston and wishes she had a lousy peach to find a little bug in, so her father leaves the house to buy more peaches for her. While he’s gone, the girl’s mother calls, announcing that she’ll be brought back to New York City tomorrow. The girl tells her mother about Gaston, and the mother is disgusted; the girl follows suit with her mother’s sentiment and crushes the bug. The father returns but is disheartened to find that his daughter no longer wants a peach. She leaves for her mother’s house the following day, and he feels abandoned, like the now-crushed Gaston.