Rather than the typical western way of storytelling whereby the audience expects a moral statement at the end of a story, "The Tapir" has an unusual narrative. "The Tapir" presents a conflict, develops it into an action-climax situation and surprises the audience by ending in suspense. Because the narrative in "The Tapir" is a myth, it can contain numerous meanings. There is also an underlying notion that the story was always there, complete.

In my creative process I intend to search for similarities between ideas that have guided musical composition in the twentieth century and the fundamental elements of storytelling. I intend to extract from stories the essential structure of the narrative, starting with the descriptive outer layer of characters, places and situations, and ending with the inner layer where just the structure of a narrative is revealed. My sequential images can be read as a musical score, or vice versa.
There are three main reasons I have chosen contemporary music as a template for my piece: the structural aspect of the musical composition, its close connection with the studies of physics of sound, and its singular understanding of the graphic translation of sound events.
In "The Tapir" I have chosen the very same approach.
When analyzing the narrative structure of "The Tapir", the three ideas that I have chosen to guide the visual construction of the animation are: a traditional harmonic construction ending in suspension instead of repose; the simultaneous layering of events; and an atypical beginning that is filled with elements (props, characters, situations) which will all disappear as the story progresses.
In terms of narrative, the whole story is divided into nine scenes, each one corresponding to a different layer within the same space. The camera moves from the front layer to the last, passing by all the different events. The simultaneity of the events is depicted in the nine layers which are horizontally superimposed. From the point of view of the first layer one can see part of each one of the subsequential layers.