Sally is a city girl and very unhappy about staying on her aunt and uncle’s farm while her parents are on vacation.

To cheer her up, Sally's aunt makes a gingerbread cookie, which promptly leaps out of the oven and takes her on a merry adventure to see travelling players perform Aesop's 'The City Mouse and the Country Mouse' in a nearby town. Along the way the intrepid duo encounters a karate-kicking donkey with a scrambled vocabulary, a fashionable skunk with a nose for rare fragrances, and a sly fox who tries to put the bite on the Gingerbread Man.

The hilarious play-within-a-play prompts Sally to consider whether a life on the road is really as right for her as it is the Gingerbread Man. Ultimately, Sally decides she belongs with her family and bids her magical cookie a fond farewell.