In need of a friend, Galileo decides he wants a pet. He thinks he has one when a featherbeam bird enters his life.

Galileo decides he needs to explore outside the marsh. He builds a boat, ready to take off for some adventure, but the adventure comes to him. A plant from a frozen climate floats by, and Galileo decides he will return it to its rightful place in the mountains. Eco tries to remind Galileo about Nature's way through a story about an unruly tribal leader.

Maggie decides to trick as many groundlings as she can, but some trust is lost, which proves costly.

Maggie craves attention. She declares to all that she will look for a flower known only in stories.

Mud/Slinger comes down with a rare disorder and can't speak coherently. Hope for a cure may be thwarted unless Galileo and Maggie learn to cooperate.

Stacks is ashamed when confronted with the fact that he is a machine. Eco eases things by telling all the ground-lings how Stacks came to be.

How can the Groundlings find relief from the oppressive heat? Mud/Slinger try out a myriad of inventions, none of which work--until they hit upon a fancy fan. But it takes an isolated thunderstorm to remind Mud/Slinger that they don't need certain tools all the time.

After Eco accidentally breaks the Pot of Plenty prior to the annual harvest meal of gratitude, she and Galileo follow the legend of their grandcestors in an effort to create a replacement pot.

Eco is intent on spending time by herself while all the other groundlings seek attention.

Galileo chases Maggie out of the marsh on the grounds that she doesn't serve any useful purpose. But an invasion of fast-rising flowers threatens to drown out the marsh and everyone in it, and Maggie is the only groundling to evade a floral disaster.

Mud/Slinger's new invention to protect the groundlings from the drowsy effects of doy daisies leads to a potential explosion.

Stacks feels left out because all the groundlings have been ignoring him. All that changes when Stacks suffers from amnesia, thinking he's a tree.