In another, a black youth in the ghetto who detests rap and instead prefers the music of
Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong is transported to the 1940s and soon becomes the victim
of a hate crime.
Then a blanket from WWI ends up becoming a birthday gift for a young, budding history
buff. Whenever the boy is alone, however, the blanket’s original owner, a British Soldier who
drowned in the mud in Ypres, approaches him and complains of being dirty and cold.
Also: a young girl climbs to the tallest branch of the tree behind her house and refuses to
come down until her grandfather, who had just recently passed away, comes back to give her
the goodbye she never got.
A man makes a pie out of apples he stole from his neighbor’s orchard. Furious, the woman
places a curse on the man, telling him that any children he has will be eaten.
A girl finds she can bring back her long-lost love by crying, but the moment she regains her
composure he disappears. Distraught, she hurls herself off a bridge, only to find that she
keeps being revived only in the company of a happy man. When she bursts into tears at the
sight, the man turns sad, and she, too, disappears.
In the end, however, it is the story of the horse’s tail and the seven stars that makes the
difference.