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The story opens in a forest known as Dapplewood where "Furlings," a term for animal children, live alongside their teacher Cornelius. The four Furlings central to the story are Abigail, a woodmouse; Russell, a hedgehog; Edgar, a mole; and a badger named Michelle, who is Cornelius' neice.

One day, the four children go on a trip through the forest with Cornelius, where they see a road for the first time. Russell is almost run over by a careless driver, who throws away a glass bottle, which shatters in the middle of the road. Cornelius orders the Furlings to forget the road altogether. The ramble ends in a boat ride. Afterward, they go back to the forest to find out that it has been destroyed with poison gas from an overturned tanker truck that blew a tire from the broken glass bottle while transporting chlorine gas.

Michelle goes into her house, only to breathe some of the gas and become severely ill. Abigail manages to save her, and the Furlings go to Cornelius' house nearby for shelter. There, Cornelius tells the Furlings that they need to fetch two herbs that can help Michelle: lungwort and eyebright. With only a limited amount of time, they head off for their journey the next day.

After encountering numerous obstacles including a hungry owl, a flock of religious wrens, and intimidating construction equipment, the Furlings make it to the meadow with the herbs they need. After collecting some eyebright, they discover that the lungwort is on a giant cliff making it inaccessible by foot. Russell suggests they use Cornelius' airship, the Flapper-Wing-a-Ma-Thing, to get to the lungwort.

The Furlings manage to get the lungwort, and they steer their airship back for Dapplewood. They crash-land back in the forest after a storm, and bring the herbs to Michelle and Cornelius. After a group of humans who have come to clean up the gas' mess save Edgar from an old trap, the Furlings help Michelle get better. The next day, she wakes up from her coma. The Furlings' parents arrive as well, except for Michelle's mother and father, who were killed in the gas accident. Michelle asks Cornelius if anything will ever be the same again. Cornelius looks at the dead trees in the forest and says that if everyone works as hard to save Dapplewood as the Furlings did to save Michelle, it will be. The movie ends with an overhead shot of Dapplewood to show that much of the forest is still alive.

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