Z is a little worker ant with big ideas who is miserable in the place that life has slotted him. That is until a chance meeting with the lovely Princess Bala, when Z decides he needs to make a few changes in his life so he can go after the girl of his dreams. Unbeknownst to either Z or Bala, General Mandible has a few ideas of his own for the ant colony and it may be up Z, the individual ant in a mass of conformity, to save them all. So, you know, "just your average 'boy meets girl, boy likes girl, boy changes entire social order' story."