Honeysuckle is a flutter pony, one of many from the Sweet Apple Acres hive, and she is starving. The heat wave of a particularly bad summer has forced them to take their chances on the orchard’s dwindling apple supply, which holds the best food available for miles around. But dangers are always waiting for her outside the nest, and the young earth pony who runs the farm will not be pleased when his already meagre stockpile begins to shrink.