Ferdinand, only just a bull, prefers sitting quietly under a cork tree only smelling the blossoms snorting, leaping, and butting heads with other bulls. As Ferdinand grows big and strong, his character remains mellow, but one day five men come to opt for the"biggest, fastest, roughest bull" for the bullfights in Madrid and Ferdinand is wrongly chosen. Based on the classic 1936 kids' book by Munro Leaf.