Loosely based on the baseball writing of W. P. Kinsella, the series was set in a world populated by anthropomorphic birds, and centred on the minor league baseball team in the town of Mynaville. The baseball games were represented by placing two-dimensional characters in three-dimensional backgrounds. The teams of bird characters were opposed by rival teams like the Weasels, the Pigs, the Beavers and the Elephants.
After being fired from her job and dumped by her boyfriend, a cosmetics saleswoman becomes the nanny to the three children of a rich widow man. As time passes, the two fall for each other.
Young orphan Rémi lives with his impoverished adoptive parents on a farm. When money runs out, his father sells Rémi to homeless street performer Vitalis, once a famous opera singer who ended up destitute after a tragic love story.