After a successful season of performing in Farmer Mills' barn, our pigs are struck by disaster Violet is convinced that the Mills want to support the struggling farm by making a silk purse out of her ear. Though she is sad to leave her brothers and her home, she is desperate to escape (would she be a sport purse? As her clueless brothers remind her, she is, when all is said and done, pigskin). Pignapped by the wicked Truck Man, she is taken to the Big Top Circus, where her talents and courage, with the help of a beautiful pony and a daring young monkey on a flying trapeze, set her on a path...

Hobart and his three siblings long for the life of artists: singing, dancing, writing poetry, and performing stupendous gymnastic feats. They practice diligently until the day the spiteful goose calls them "pork chops." Forced to flee, the ingenious pigs find a way to stay out of the oven and help Mr. Mills keep his beloved farm...until disaster strikes and they are captured by the evil City Meat Truck Man. Can Hobart, Violet, Wilfred and Byron survive to develop their gifts to the fullest? Will Hobart's hopefulness keep them from being the featured ingredient in a BLT? Read on