A pet chameleon becomes stranded in the Mojave Desert after his terrarium falls from his owners' car by accident. On the road, he meets the cause of the accident, a nine-banded armadillo named Roadkill who the car had hit and who is seeking the mystical "Spirit of the West". While wandering the desert, he narrowly avoids being eaten by a vicious red-tailed hawk before meeting the desert iguana Beans. Beans takes him to Dirt, an Old West town populated by anthropomorphic animals, where Roadkill said on Wednesdays water comes in through a mysterious rite.