Josefina is very happy when she is unable to find the owner of a baby burro, but she is very sad that she has not sold her basket of fruit and will be unable to buy grandfather his birthday gift.
Samantha (nicknamed Sam) lives on an island with her fisherman father who calls Sam's make-believe "moonshine." She pretends she has a baby kangaroo and a mermaid mother--while she really has Bangs, her cat, and Thomas, a friend who believes everything she makes up--until one fateful day when Moonshine almost causes a tragedy--and you meet a gerbil!.