In a far away forgotten valley heaped with long-abandoned junk, a timeless battle rages between good and evil… and also between squishy and scaly, happy and grumpy, clever and wily… handsome and plain old ugly. This is the land of Bottersnikes and Gumbles.
Excellency, a revered and extraordinarily wealthy patriarch, spent his life mentoring others, teaching principles of integrity, and guiding countless souls toward virtuous paths. After his death, his family drowns in years of mourning-until his eldest son uncovers a cryptic will. The document demands a gathering of all relatives at the family's ancestral estate to play His Excellency, a ritualistic game designed to test allegiance and expose hidden betrayals. As the heirs converge under the mansion's ominous shadow, long-buried resentments surface, alliances fracture, and the patriarch's true motive emerges: a final lesson in loyalty, where the stakes are legacy, trust, and survival.
This is a story about 3 men that live together : Zen, Taro and Ken. One morning they wake up to find out that they are now fathers; which helps them to grow right beneath their own eyes.
Follows the dangerous work of logger and sawmill owner Kevin Wenstob as he and his crew go to extremes to keep the family sawmill, and their way of life, alive.