A poor beggar arrives in town and wanders from door to door seeking food and shelter, only to be turned away by all the townsfolk. Undaunted, he removes the bone buttons from his coat and entices the townsfolk to cooperate to make enough "bone button borscht" to feed them all.

Parallel text in Portuguese. Based on the folktale, Stone soup. Titulo original: Bone button borscht. Bone Button soup, better known to us as Stone Soup is a popular tale of Jewish tradition.