Six-year-old Hushpuppy lives in a community cut off from the rest of the world. When a storm raises the waters around her town, her daddy is stricken with illness, and fierce pre-historic creatures awaken from their frozen graves come charging across the planet. Desperate to save her father and home, this tiny heroine must learn to survive an unstoppable catastrophe.
Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.