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The story centers on a young girl and her friendship with the eponymous animal. An adult female narrator will relate the tale as a memoir of her childhood. The film will combine nature documentary footage with the aforementioned fictionalized story.

Luc Jacquet, who directed the highly successful doc March of the Penguins, said he was inspired to write the story based on his own first-time encounter with a fox as a 10-year-old, along with a similar episode featured in Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic children's book "The Little Prince."