A hen gives birth to an egg she names Toto, whom she hopes grows up to be a "great chicken." However, Toto is separated from his mother along with a dozen of other eggs that are delivered to a supermarket, from which Toto and eleven other eggs are purchased. In captivity in an egg basket, Toto meets Willy, a lookout soldier egg who plots an escape with the other eggs. As Toto is the newcomer, Willy tells him to distract the household's cat while the others leave through the kitchen window. Toto leads the cat away from the kitchen and befriends a chocolate egg, Heuvay, from underneath the couch, who aids Toto in joining the other escaping eggs. Toto and Willy are then separated from the others by the cat, who is caught by its owner before he can eat them and is blamed for the loss of her other eggs.