The evil Mrs. D'Abondo wants to help a powerful businessman build a highway through the middle of the forest and gives instructions to cut down the trees, forcing the forest creatures to flee. Furi and his friends do not want to leave and so they bring the magical forest to life in order to save their home.

"Jim Hadley has a government grant to cut timber near the high-country town of Deep Well, and that's what he and his callous lumbermen insist they'll do. But the townspeople, knowing that the ruinous watershed destruction that follows such clear-cutting, resist Hadley setting in motion a clash of wills and force"--Container.