Wheezy cannot stand Papa Jeep. After living together for almost 30 years in a trailer park bordering the desert, she has fallen out of love. And he knows it. There’s nothing that excites her anymore. Except for her cactus garden: a real oasis sprouting in between the copious amounts of trash they’ve hoarded over the decades. She loves them. Papa Jeep doesn’t really get it. He’s grown jealous of her cactuses and longs for the attention she gives them. One morning, Wheezy’s cactuses wake up dead. She is devastated. Papa Jeep cannot stand seeing her suffer. It’s breaking his heart. He comes up with an idea: to end Wheezy's misery - and to gain her love back - he will become a cactus.