Patch has no idea how important he is. He's been raised by his grandparents as any other kit had been and had learned his grandfather's trade as a tailor. His life is happy and normal until, under the guise of prophecy, the Possum King attacks the Mouse Kingdom with his army of rats and Patch is sent to the mines to work as a slave. It is there that Patch meets his uncle, and begins to understand his own past, as well as his role as a true hero in the Prophecy.