They are coming. Everyone knows it. And that is precisely the problem. The king shuts himself away in his castle and allows himself to be whispered to by Fear, which sees danger everywhere. To keep the elephants out, he builds walls and invents rules. Everyone must be the same, speak the same, think the same. Deviating is dangerous. Everyone goes along with it. Everyone except Samar.

Samar is not afraid, not of the elephants and certainly not of the king. She does not want to obey rules that no one truly understands. She sees Fear too, but does not take it too seriously. While the king attempts ever more rigidly to maintain control, Samar sets everything off balance.

Samar en de bange koning is a humorous and moving fairy tale about fear and power, about control and imagination, and about what happens when one person decides not to go along.