The story began when the Little Star fell to earth from way up there somewhere and it forgot itself - who it was, what it was all about.
Lost in a strange world, it decided to claim the world and its inhabitants for itself, to own it, to be served and obeyed.
Through no doing of its own, it finds itself on a journey of discovery that is dual in purpose. On the one hand, discovering what it is and what it isn't, and on the other, which qualities in beings are admirable and which are not.
Based on these discoveries, the Little Star makes important choices. Without these, it would not have been able to find its purpose on earth, which may well be its actual purpose where it came from.
The Little Star discovers pain, empathy, death - the latter being a completely alien concept to it - and, most importantly, love.