An animated adventure from the artistic team behind `Watership Down`. A pair of dogs, Rowf (Christopher Benjamin) and Snitter (John Hurt), escape from an animal research facility situated in a remote part of the English countryside. Rowf is cynical and mistrusting of humans, having only known the tortured existence of being a laboratory animal. Snitter, on the other hand, had previously enjoyed life as a domestic pet and longs to be loved and cared for by a human master once again. Unprepared for life in the wild, the pair befriend a fox, The Tod (James Bolam), who helps them learn to survive in the bleak environment by feeding on the area`s livestock. As the authorities attempt to track down the escapees, things take a turn for the worse when a deliberately leaked story suggests the dogs may be infected with the bubonic plague.