The tale begins with a most irreverent rabbit called upon to reenact the harrowing events following the abduction of a rare albino squirrel in a quiet corner of the Backwoods. A wry and devoted homebody, rabbit Suds retells how he and a host of other forest dwellers were drafted time and again to go hounding after some goblin raccoon who made off with the secretive squirrel for his own mysterious reasons. But the smuggler soon loses her to another sordid scoundrel, and then another, and again, until she can no longer tell friend from foe and must decide her own fate.