A farmer’s duck lays ten eggs. When the eggs hatch, nine ducklings are born looking like their mom, and the tenth one looks big, grey and ugly. The other nine ducklings make fun of the ugly one. Unhappy, the ugly duckling runs to a nearby river where he sees beautiful, white swans. Scared and lost, he decides to drown himself. But when he sees his reflection in the water, he realises he was not an ugly duckling at all but a beautiful swan.