When you tell a story of fiction, you are asking the audience to suspend their disbelief. To temporarily believe the imagined world of the story. This suspension of disbelief can only go so far. If the story is too unbelievable. If the storyteller pulls them too far from reality, they will disengaging from the story.
Depth vs width is an indicator of whether a story will maintain the suspension of disbelief or not. How deep the storyteller explores idea(s) vs how many ideas are being communicated. For details, see https://garden.bradwoods.io/notes/design/story-depth-vs-width
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