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.

• BBC
• Wilfrid Grantham
• Edmund Willard
• Pamela Standish
• Frank Birch
• Maire O'Neill
• Charles Peters
• Rupert Bruce Lockhart
• Sheila Kay