In a poor city filled with old, patched-up buildings, a painter is wearily painting a building’s wall. Sometime in the morning, a poor artist who lives in that building gets up and starts painting a picture. At first, the painter looks at the artist with disdain but the artist’s concentration stirs the painter’s curiosity. The next day, the artist keeps on painting his picture and the painter continues to paint the wall. The painter paints a tree on the wall to relieve...more

In a poor city filled with old, patched-up buildings, a painter is wearily painting a building’s wall. Sometime in the morning, a poor artist who lives in that building gets up and starts painting a picture. At first, the painter looks at the artist with disdain but the artist’s concentration stirs the painter’s curiosity. The next day, the artist keeps on painting his picture and the painter continues to paint the wall. The painter paints a tree on the wall to relieve his boredom. Then, when the artist goes away for a while, the painter secretly looks at the artist’s work and paints over it. When the artist comes back, he notices that his picture is different and he throws it away. The painter comes home and mourns his situation - he once painted pictures as an artist, but now he’s a painter who paints walls. Meanwhile, the artist picks up the picture that he threw away - the one that the painter painted over - and comes back home with it. The next day, the painter discovers that a frame is drawn around the tree that he had painted on the wall. less