Standing alone in a yard, a rumplenut tree sadly ponders its solitude, wishing for a bird to carry its rumplenuts beyond its shade so that new rumplenut seedlings can grow. And just over yonder roosts a splendiferous quig with gleaming feathers, all alone in a house, confined by a cage.

It is up to the hero of this tale, a lad named Tobias, to embark on a very important mission -- to bring the quig and the rumplenut tree together so that they each can live long into the future.