[3][4] The film stars Luisa Wietzorek as Latte, an ambitious hedgehog, and Tim Schwarzmaier as Tjum, a shy and clumsy red squirrel, on a journey to retrieve the magic waterstone from the thief who stole it.

In the English dub produced by Netflix, Latte and Tjum are voiced by Ashley Bornancin and Carter Hastings respectively.

Her only friend, a red squirrel named Tjum, is convinced that Latte is a princess after she lies that her father was the king of a faraway kingdom.

A recent drought forces the community to conserve water more carefully than usual, storing what little they can find in pumpkins.

An emergency council meeting is called, during which an elderly crow insists that the drought was caused by the theft of a magic waterstone.

In the morning, Greta gives Tjum a bag of waterberries that can quell one's thirst, and tells him to ration them carefully.

Latte and Tjum are brought to King Bantur, who admits to stealing the waterstone, but is unconcerned with the drought this theft has caused for the rest of the forest.

Meanwhile, a reformed King Bantur watches Amaroo do his acrobatic tricks with some water back in their cave.

[6] The short won the award for Best German Screenplay at the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film.

Welker told Animation Magazine, "Latte has so many different character traits, which makes her super interesting but also difficult to balance her behavior.

"[10] The film's animation is made using Autodesk Maya and rendered using Arnold with 14-CPU farms supported by Houdini and Blackmagic Fusion.

Most of the applications took place at Grid's studios in Ghent to give the film a "Pixar-esque" design with realistic fur on the characters and trees, around 73 animators used Dell Computers to give the appearance of the textures by open-source documents made on Substance Painter and Grid's proprietary software the Gclus, philmCGI in India and Tinker Magic in Spain handled the additional animation.

[12] In Germany, the German Film and Media Evaluation gave it a positive rating, ranking it as "especially valuable" and writing that people of all ages will enjoy it.

[13] Director Regina Welker described the reception in Germany as "well received", and that "the kids loved it", but felt that the release of Frozen II took the attention off of Latte and the Magic Waterstone rather quickly.