Afrum lives in a beautiful forest cottage, away from his family and village where everyone calls him 'the Fool' for his habit of listening to animals and whispering to birds. Everyone in this village knows that on Fridays no one dares go to the farms in the nearby forest beyond the stream. When Bempong the farmer returns from his farm one Friday with a little girl who turns out to belong to the mischievous and magical wood nymphs of the forest, there is great trouble for the whole village. In the end, it is Afrum, 'the Fool', whose wisdom saves his people. And to this very day, nobody is allowed to call a child a fool.