A misfit ant, looking for "warrior" to save his colony from greedy grasshopper, recruits a group of ...
A misfit ant, looking for "warrior" to save his colony from greedy grasshopper, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe.
Every year, a bunch of grasshopper come to the anthill and eat what the ants have gathered for them. The "offering", as the ants call the ritual, is a part of their fate. One day in spring, when the offering's preparation has just been finished, Flik, unliked inventor ant, accidentally drops the whole offered seeds into the river. The grasshopper come and give the ants a second chance to collect food until fall. Flik sets off to find bugs that are willing to fight the grasshopper (nobody expects him to succeed anyway) and, due to a double misinterpretation, return with a circus crew, giving everybody new hope. When the misundertanding finally gets cleared out, there is only little time left for a new plan, which has to work, or else...