The story is about a blue bird living in a mountain paradise raising her babies. They then grow up and take flight finding their own adventures. When out of the blue a massive storm hits, and she is injured and loses her home and the wonderful life she once had. After days of being injured and losing hope she is found by a woodsman and his wife. They take the bird in (who they have named Blu) to mend her wounds. One day she is healed and ready to return to her friends in the forest. She takes flight but later that evening when the couple are relaxing in front of the fire, they here a tapping on the window, Blu has returned. Every day after the woodsman would leave the widow open so Blu could fly with her friends and every night, she would return knowing she was warm, safe and loved and home is where her heart is.