小虎和妈妈无忧无虑的生活在广袤的森林之中，然而，某一日，偷猎者的铁蹄踏破了这片土地的宁静，小虎掉入了陷阱之中，被偷猎者捉住了。一场意外让装载着小虎的卡车遭遇了事故跌落山崖，小虎因此重获自由。 机缘巧合之下，训虎师燕燕和大龙发现了无处可去的小虎，他们将小虎误以为是小白猫收留了，与此同时，不愿善罢甘休的偷猎者尾随而至。在同偷猎者的斗智斗勇之中，小虎同善良的大龙失散了，大龙亦得知了小虎的真正身份，为了救小虎而踏上了旅途。之后，一路逃亡的小虎结识了驴子奔奔，他们决心相互帮助，相互扶持，回到属于他们自己的家园。

Nicolas Cage is Charlie Kaufman, a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman, Orlean's book, become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the others'.