A family of mallards is in a predicament: while father Mac Mallard is content to know his family will always be safe living on a New England pond, mother Pam is eager to shake things up and show her children—teenage son Dax and little daughter Gwen—how big and diverse the world can be. After a family of migrating ducks lands on their pond with exciting tales of faraway places, Pam persuades Mac to take a family trip via New York to tropical Jamaica. But everything would be too easy if their plans were to come to fruition.