The Good Stranger's Sancocho Surprise/ El sancocho sorpresa del buen desconocido is a bilingual re-telling of the classic Stone Soup tale, set in the Dominican Republic.
A stranger who has lost his family to tragedy comes to a rural town, and he is starving.
He asks for help, but only a penniless girl, with no knowledge of cooking, will offer it.
Together they make sancocho-- a traditional Dominican soup, the kind in which everything can get thrown into the pot-- using a secret recipe the stra.