[3][4] An old woodworm who lives in a small piece of wood, near the top of a mountain, tells the story of his ancestors on their journey on the ark.

Willi, the oldest ancestor in the old worm's family tree, lives in a hole in a trunk, alongside his wife, Alice.

Meanwhile, the said trunk gets cut some more so it can be placed in the ark's structure, and the couple starts panicking inside.

God manages to break a second one and instructs some crows to inform the animals about the ark.

God sends rain to begin the flood, and the ark starts sailing.

As the days pass, Willi and Alice give birth to a lot of baby woodworms.

Meanwhile, as Willi and his children try to go to the main tunnel at the stern, he sees that the termites have captured his wife.

Suddenly, as the bears insist on blaming each other's deck for whatever is happening, some floors on the ark's inside crumble, and the animals fall down.

After all the animals and the humans left, the woodworms stayed behind inside the ark, which became their home for many generations.

At long last, we have set up an animation studio capable of full animation, the first in Germany.At the end of the film's production, the relationship between producer Michael Schoemann (who went on the direct The Magic Voyage, another German film also starring a woodworm) and Urchs was strained due to creative differences.

[6] The footage shown on the woodworm's TV are scenes from Battlestar Galactica and the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

A scene depicting an alpaca which can be seen in the English trailer was deleted from the final cut.

UIP would initially license the film to many home video distributors abroad.