The film was directed and written by Baker, produced by Pam Dennis and other actors and crew members,[5] the animation tells the story of an isolated circular village located in the middle of a large forest in Northern Britain.

The majority of the villagers are cruel and hypocritical: the cleaning woman harvests, but never shares the apples from the tree in the square; the parish priest is an alcoholic and spits on the prisoner; the miser hoards his gold coins; the nosy old woman spies on her neighbours; and a married man berates his wife whenever she prepares meals he hates.

One Sunday afternoon after the Mass, the gardener and his girlfriend are having sex outside the village when the woman's husband decides to rob the miser.

While the villagers are building the gallows to hang the gardener on, his girlfriend secretly gives him a shovel which he then uses to dig a tunnel and escape.

However, the prisoner sounds the alarm, and the villagers form an angry mob and look for the gardener, who has climbed up a vine and hidden himself on his girlfriend's roof.

When the woman fails to stop her husband, the gardener saves her and himself by punching the murderer in the head, sending him falling to his death.

The woman quickly guides her near sighted lover out of the village as a colony of ants strip her dead husband's body down to the bone.

When the villagers wake up to find the murderer's skeleton clutching the stolen glasses, they believe the gardener to be dead and dismantle the gallows.

Baker, who directed and wrote the screenplay, explained how the animation was created stating "Since leaving the National Film & Television School in 1988, I had worked for a time at TVC, London before joining Pizazz Pictures.

Pam Dennis and Mario Cavalli, were keen to help me get my next film in production and together we approached Clare Kitson at Channel Four".

"I liked the idea of the village having a definite inside and outside, with most of the characters staying in their houses and occasionally scuttling across the courtyard from one building to another.

[1] The team of animators were, Neville Astley, Mark Baker, Sally Baxter, Roxanne Ducharme, Caroline Cruikshank, Alyson Hamilton, Vanessa Luther-Smith, Gaston Marzio, Tom Newman, Isabel Radage, Sharon Smith, Paul Stone, Pete Western & Julia Woolf.

Pam Dennis, the producer, and her assistant, Angela Cocker, would check with us on a weekly basis to find out if we were keeping up with the schedule.