By a cruel coincidence, the Poppy, an expensive tie, was thrown into the trash. There he meets other heroes who find themselves in the same predicament: a broken vase, an air freshener bottle, a shoe with gum stuck to the sole and an old spool of thread. Mac believes that he is better than this rabble, and dreams of getting his old life back. The rest of them want to go to a place called Paradise, thinking that it is there that they will be able to fulfill all their desires — after all, if you are stuck in a dumpster, you probably have something to wish for!