"How Nanita Learned to Make Flan" is an energetic, light-hearted story about a shoemaker’s daughter from a small Mexican village who has no shoes to wear to her first communion because her father is too busy to make them. She takes it upon herself to make her own shoes, but they then take on a life of their own and whisk her away on a journey into the desert at night. Lost, she comes across a Ranchero and his wife who force her to do their housework; part of that work is to make flan for them. Nanita befriends an old talking parrot in the house who helps her to escape and return home to her father, her first communion and her new shoes!