The orphan Rikkie grows up among storks and believes that he is a stork, too! But when winter comes and the storks prepare to migrate to Africa, his stork family must reveal his true identity and leave him behind since he would not survive the long journey. Determined to prove he is a stork after all, Rikkie ventures south on an epic adventure, accompanied by the  eccentric owl Olga and the egocentric disco-singing parakeet Kiki. A dangerous journey in which they encounter many pitfalls…