The film starts in November, when the Adélie Penguins return from the North Sea and prepare nests for the female penguins, however many penguins try to take rocks from each other, the female penguins come and lay their eggs, they then separate from their mates to get food while the males take care of the eggs. It would take 40 days before the females return. Owing to the hunger getting to them almost all the males go to get some food, and, as a result a flock of Skuas come and try to snatch the eggs. Toto, the father of a couple, manages to save one of his eggs, and an egg belonging to another couple. When the females return, he tells his mate Lala that one of the eggs does not belong to them. He then rightfully returns the other egg to the couple and they have one egg for themselves.