Elsa Toussaint lies in bed, finding it difficult to sleep with the
excitement of knowing she will be staying with her grandparents at their
beachside home in Toco, Trinidad, for a month. From the time her parents
drive Elsa through Toco and she sees her old friend Nora, Elsa
understands that the holiday will be fun. Elsa and Nora soon re-unite,
and Elsa develops a new friendship in the form of a parrot her
animal-loving Aunt Lily had adopted, Simon. The trio of friends work
together to save the life of a baby bird that has fallen out of the
infamous mango tree, gaining another friend in the process, a Motmot
bird that Elsa later names Motty. When rescuing the baby Motmot, Nora
enlists the aid of one of her friends, Colin. Colin is a nice boy but
still immature enough to both make fun of Elsa being deaf and the fact
that he saw her underwear when she climbed the mango tree.