Two actor performances in the style of a scene out of a movie.
She's been digging for a long time. When the wombat Digger gets lost in her tunnels, she ends up in a world far from home. With the guidance of an idol to the god Ganesh, she starts on a journey filled with peculiar characters, looking to find a way back.
When Digger comes across a suspended wooden bridge with a sign warning travelers to beware of trolls, the last thing she expects is a puny shrew gurading the gate. Surka may only come up to Digger's ankle, but she's fully confident, having made friends with the local trolls, who will protect her if she's in any trouble. Still, when you're hungry, it can be easier to make friends.
It seems that no matter what they do, the coop owners can't keep Vicky, the local fox, from stealing their chickens. But when they hire Gallo, a big Italian rooster full of swagger and charm, Vicky finds a real challenge.
With a full moon above, it's a perfect night for stealing a chicken. Vicky takes the secret route she's dug for herself to get inside, only to find someone waiting for her. Gallo found the hole and learned the name of the fox that's been breaking into the coop, so has spent the night waiting for her to arrive so he could introduce himself.
Fired from his stock broker job due to stress, Walter Benswar finds the opposite problem of being unemployed and stir crazy while waiting for employment. He begins to question his sanity when he starts hallucinating his apartment neighbors dying in gruesome ways, and not being able to tell if he was committing the murders in a stupor of ennui. Until he hallucinates his OWN death.
Walter, after having been questioned and released by the police department, has apparently awoken to blood on his paws, a carving knife in one of them. He is standing in the apartment of his rabbit neighbor Janice, and her brutally stabbed body at his feet. As he is trying to make sense of it all, he hears the voice that has been giving him his hallucinations. His id-based desires. And now, his murderous rampages.
When the drought runs too long, a village of coyotes grows desperate. An old coyote cry says a gift of silver and turquoise brought to the top of Arizuma mountain will bring skywater. Carol is the only adult without pups, so she reluctantly takes on the challenge to climb the mountain with the village's last riches. She understands little about the old magic she's tasked to summon, leaving her having to trust the absent-minded and disconnected ringtail who joins her on her journey.
Milton has learned he can't convince Caroline not to take her silver to the top of Arizuma mountain. So he figures if the world is going to end, he might as well tag along for it. That leaves the grounded Caroline with the silly ringtail in tow, a reluctant pair, but the only partner she has on the lonely mountain. This scene opens with the pair taking a rest, and Milton trying to liven up the mood by showing off his impressive tail-juggling.