Just a small bull, ferdinand, prefers sitting quietly under a cork tree only smelling the flowers versus jumping around, snorting, and butting heads with different bulls. Since Ferdinand grows big and strong, his temperament remains sterile, but one day five men have come to opt for the"biggest, fastest, roughest bull" for the bullfights in Madrid and Ferdinand is mistakenly chosen. Dependent on the classic 1936 children's book by Munro Leaf.