The Small One

A tender, spiritually resonant animated fable about a boy's compassion for a humble creature, woven into the nativity story with gentle warmth and reverence.

Ordered by his father to sell an old mule called Small One, a Hebrew boy in the ancient Holy Land takes the donkey to the Jerusalem market. Finding no buyers there, the boy is about to give up when he meets a kind man named Joseph, who buys Small One and uses the steed to take his pregnant wife Mary to Bethlehem.