Life isn't easy for a Parisian rat. But Gouri is getting by: with his best friend Rak , he's got a small business selling worms to pigeons, a cozy bachelor nest at the local florist, an--as spring blooms in the City of Lights--a budding love interest. But after a double date goes horribly wrong, Gouri and Rak , along with the royal Rat Court--the princesses Iris and Catarina, and their hilariously unpredictable mother, the Queen of Rats--find themselves adrift on the Seine, accessories after the fact to a double homicide, using their new ally, a small human child, as a life raft. From there, the hijinks metastasize. French police collar the gang along with Mimile, a sadistic murderer who never remembers his crimes. But having escaped lock-up (from the cell they'd been tossed into with their arch-enemies, a snake and a terrier), they pay a visit to the God of Man (a homeless recluse hiding out in the Sainte-Chapelle), but then the giant Rat Devil makes his appearance, full of fiery