The narrator, an airplane pilot, crashes in the Sahara desert. While he tries to repair his engine a little boy appears, and the two become friends. The pilot learns that the boy (the little prince) comes from a small planet called Asteroid B-612. The little prince took great care of this planet.

One day, a mysterious rose sprouted on the planet and the little prince fell in love with it. But when he caught the rose in a lie one day, he decided that he could not trust her anymore. He grew lonely and decided to leave.

The little prince passes by neighbouring asteroids. On the first six planets he visits, he meets a king, a vain man, a drunk, a businessman, a lamplighter, and a geographer, all of whom live alone and consumed by their chosen occupations.

He doesn't understand their need to order people around, to be admired and to own everything.

At the geographer’s suggestion, the little prince visits Earth. There, he meets a snake who says that can return him to his asteroid if he wishes.

Then, he befriends a fox, who teaches him that the important things in life are visible only to the heart.

The little prince realizes that, even though

there are many roses, his love for his rose makes her unique and that he is therefore responsible for her.

Despite this revelation, he still feels very lonely because he is so far away from his rose, and he begins making plans with the snake to return to his planet.

The narrator is able to fix his plane on the day before the one-year anniversary of the prince’s arrival on Earth, and he walks sadly with his friend out to the place the prince landed.

The snake bites the prince, who falls silently to the sand.

The narrator takes comfort when he cannot find the prince’s body the next day and he is confident that the prince has returned to his asteroid. 

THE END