A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose increasingly mechanized behavior leads to a militaristic society.
as The Lepidopterist / First Snail
as The Tranp
as The Chrysalis
as Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
as Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
as Robber Beetle/Journalist
as The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor
as The Larva
as Mr. Cricket / Second Snail
as Mrs. Cricket
as The Blind Ant Timekeeper
as The Parasite
