The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a home with the normal-sized Lender family,"borrowing" including items as thread, safety hooks, batteries and bits of food. However, their calm co existence is disturbed when wicked lawyer Ocious P. Potter steals the will granting title to your home, which he plans to demolish as a way to create apartments. The Lenders are forced to go, and also the Clocks face the risk to be confronted with the normal-sized world.