The Old Woman, the Little Pig, and the Long Kindness of the Lane

On a dusty village path at dusk, an old woman finds her small pig has sat down and will not move. Her search for one ripe apple leads her along a chain of quiet neighborly favors, an ember, a mended hook, a bucket of well water, a borrowed basket, until she learns that no difficulty is solved alone, and none of them all at once.