Marlowe is a very ordinary field mouse who wakes up one morning in a Virginia farm burrow, sticks his head out and decides he is tired of being alone. He collects his precious possessions and sets out across the field for the house and ends up under the old dwelling in the dirt and darkness surrounded by spiders he sees as monsters and other rats and mice. Marlowe jumps up onto a subfloor and finds a way into the house through a hole in the floor of the kitchen, behind the stove. He leaves his treasure under the house and enters the kitchen where he meets Miss. Penny the house cat and Smoker...