12 year old Alex lives with his mother and grandmother Lolotte. Put off by his mother's remarriage, he runs away from home. Lolotte is so worried she calls her girlfriends to the rescue. Off go the seven grannies, hot on the little boy's trail which leads from Paris to Lisbon. After a series of mishaps, they find him in a zoo where he is attempting to free a koala bear. Everything is back to normal, but the grannies decide to see their adventure out to the end.