As Marla Petite's pumpkin rolls away through town and its vegetable parade, she calls out to various people along the way, enticing them to help catch the rolling pumpkin.
During the Mexican Revolution, when a troop of hungry soldiers comes to a town where all the food has been hidden, they charm the townspeople into helping make a soup from water and a cactus thorn. Retelling of a European folktale.
Gato and Ardilla come to blows with Pato in arguing about who will perform what duty in preparing their sopa de calabaza, and they almost lose Pato's friendship when he decides to leave them.