Suzy is a small striped cat with long white whiskers, who lives in a French seaside village with a fisherman and his four sons. She likes living in France, chasing butterflies and being stroked the wrong way. She doesn't like straying too far from home. But like all cats, Suzy is very inquisitive, which causes problems when she climbs into the basket of a hot air balloon, falls asleep – and is carried up, up and away over the Channel to England!