A six-year-old boy's favorite toy is a bear named Cookie. But the child has asthma, and Cookie's old dusty skin is harmful to him, so mom throws the toy in the trash.

Young Ondra has asthma and so his mom throws away his favorite toy: a musty old stuffed bear named Kooky. That night Ondra dreams that Kooky is determined to find his way back home from the dump. In the boy's fantasy, the bear gets lost in a forest occupied by strange animals and remarkable beings that he never heard of while living on the toy shelf in Ondra's room. And of course even in this small imaginary world, true good exists as does real evil, which Kooky must face up to in order to become a real hero.—Karlovy Vary Int'l Film Festival