Tizan rescues a fish which promises to repay the debt when he needs him. One day Tizan loses his father’s parrot and is told to find the parrot on pain of death. Tizan seeks help from the fish which brings back the parrot. Tizan gets his own parrot, and when his father is older, he loses this parrot. Tizan imposes the same sentence on him and he dies trying to find the parrot.