Trapped behind barbed wire, fearing for their very lives, Ginger, Bunty, and Fowler are chickens with a mission. Ginger and her fellow flock are determined to make a break for freedom but every escapes goes "fowl" when they are caught by the evil Mrs. Tweedy and her oafish husband who want to turn them into chicken pies. When an all-American rooster named Rocky lands in the farm, Ginger sees her chance -these chickens won't cross the road : they'll fly the coop. together they prove that chicken are anything but, as they engage in a daring ans spectacular escape.