Summary
A minuscule epic transpires inside a sun-bleached meadow where Aurélie, a velvet-winged house-fly with the swagger of a Parisian flapper, filches viscous gold from a gendarme of a bee whose thorax gleams like burnished brass. The heist collapses; wings tangle, antennae quiver, the sky tilts. From the shadows of a corncockle strides Capricorn, a horned beetle whose carapace carries the patina of forgotten samurai armor—he parries the stinger with a twig-rapier, wins the damsel, and slips a dew-drop ring upon her foreleg. Their betrothal is celebrated in the hollow of an oak, lit by fireflies who flicker like paparazzi flashbulbs, while Uncle Anatole—an oblong dung-beetle in a moth-eaten waistcoat—raises a thimble of mead, toasting the absurdity of love in a world where every petal conceals a guillotine.
Synopsis
Aurélie, the fly, lives in the countryside with her uncle Anatole, the beetle. One day, while stealing honey from the bee, she is surprised by it. Capricorn saves her and they become engaged.
