A child prodigy becomes an international celebrity at the young age of four through his obsession with knife sharpening. A man discovers that the food scraps he's been tossing overboard for over three decades has been nourishing a lobster to the point that the beast becomes a real threat to his existence. The brutal destruction of two island communities is witnessed by a young man, who watches in amazed horror as all manners of sea monsters converge on the doomed islands. If only he could think of a solution in time! The experience of traveling in a submarine carved from a tree is explained through a poem recited by one of the passengers. A group of children lose control of their adult servants when a pair of swans defend their nest and attack the group, shattering the children's belief in their power over their guardians. An old man remembers a nostalgic evening fishing with his father.