A pet chameleon becomes stranded in the Mojave Desert in California after his terrarium falls from his owners' car by accident. On the road, he meets the cause of the accident, a nine-banded armadillo named Roadkill who is seeking the mystical "Spirit of the West". While wandering the desert, the chameleon narrowly avoids being eaten by a vicious red-tailed hawk before meeting Beans, a desert iguana, who takes him to Dirt, an Old West town populated by anthropomorphic animals, where it is said that on Wednesdays water comes in through a mysterious rite.
