Big or small, the world belongs to everyone. "How deep is the sea and how wide is the land," says the little snail in this story. How can you spend all day stuck on a random stone on the shore when there are so many things to discover? There is a way to see the world, even if you are just a snail, and our hero finds it through friendship. Together with a gigantic whale, he travels the seas far and wide. But even someone as big and powerful as a whale may sometimes need help. When the whale, caught off guard by the tide, gets stranded on a beach, it is the little snail who decisively helps to rescue her. This is the story of a snail that once was, and a great, blue, humped whale. This is the black stone, smoky like a steamship, and this is the snail with the quick feet. It crawls over the stone with its shell on its back and gazes at the sea, the anchored ships... And as it looks, it complains and sighs: "How deep is the sea and how wide is the land! How I long to travel too!" it sighed heavily.