When a baby kangaroo gets accidentally swept up in a jewellery heist, she becomes separated from her mother for the first time in her young life. Alone and frightened, a worldly teenage girl Ella, who also knows the pain of losing her mother, discovers her and then nurses Joey back to health. However, when Joey is falsely implicated in ther robbery, Ella has to work quickly to reunite her with her mother before she's either captured by the bumbling jewel thieves or taken into custody by a determined detective hot on their trail.
