Bread and Swans follows the life of Pfirsich Rommel, leading man of the long-running drawn book series, The Desert Peach. From their first childhood spats, Pfirsich acts as the conscience and alter-ego of his famous historical brother, the Desert Fox, blending plain fact with pure imagination. We need bread, but there should be swans. Never forgetting that bread nourishes ? and our swans can drown us.