Exhausted by famine, two parents decide to abandon their children.
The mother, cold and calculating, is the most determined to examine the situation and lean towards abandoning the children, so much so that the father is unable to prevail with his moral objections.
Twice the children are abandoned in the woods: the first time they find their way back thanks to the pebbles they left behind, while the second time they seem doomed because, having left crumbs instead of stones, some birds devour them. The children, exhausted from fatigue, sleep and hunger, set off and, wandering through the forest, come across a strange little house: it is made of marzipan, sweets and delicacies of all kinds, and the children eagerly devour it; Inside, however, there is an evil witch who captures them, imprisoning the boy to fatten him up while the girl is forced to do the housework.
The children triumphantly return home with the witch's jewels, thus ending their family's famine.
The Blatero Owl accompanies the little inhabitants of the forest (the audience) to Hansel and Gretel's gingerbread house in the woods and helps our young spectators understand the true values of the classic fairy tale, bringing it to life in a completely unexpected way.