1862. A high altitude inn at the foot of a glacier in the Swiss Alps Each winter the snow isolates the inn rendering it totally inaccessible.

In a vegetable garden, four vegetables find that their good gardener, who has come to harvest them, has forgotten them. A small carrot, a timid leek and a cunning broccoli decide to send Patate, the fourth of the gang, as a scout...

Grand-Jacques the postman watches a mysterious wicker basket slowly float down from the sky and discovers a baby holding a small bell, and the adventure starts.