Victorious, a member of the unlucky Rattan family in rural France, becomes involved in a historic hot air balloon ascension and restores good repute to the Rattans.
During the Depression, a farm hand teaches a young boy to play the horn on a special gourd known as a trombolia, and the lessons teach him about life as well as music.
J. Jupiter Jackson, a potato farmer, discovers he is a genius at jigsaw puzzles, and so one winter he leaves the farm and his animals to seek fame and fortune.
Brother Billy's dinosaur band is en route to a booking when their train meets with a mishap in the bayou, where thereafter rests the blues in a pool of ooze.
