Animated version of Richard Adams' book. Rowf and Snitter, a pair of dogs, escape from an animal research facility based in a remote part of the English countryside. Having known only a tortured, laboratory existence, Rowf is cynical and mistrusting of humans. Snitter had once been a pet, and longs to be loved and cared for once more. As the two adapt to a life in the wild, their lives are under threat when the authorities deliberately leak a story that the dogs may be infected with the bubonic plague...