Mischievous but creative farm boy Nils Holgersson is delighted when his parents leave him alone, promising to do a list of chores. The farm animals get restless as he keeps delaying feeding them, absorbed by his flying device model. Neither does he mend the fence, no longer fox-proof. Bumbling with bis toy, he stumbles upon ad semi-accidentally catches an elf, whom he forces to grant him a wish. He chooses flying, but only gets a passive variation: a ride on the back of goose Martin, after being shrunken to mouse size. The goose only agrees after Nils does his chores and the scary fox arrives, so after a test flight they decide to follow a migrating flock of geese, including an eagle believing to be a goose.
—KGF Vissers