Eccentric inventor Wallace has created a device that transports him out of his bed dresses him & prepares his breakfast One morning however his machine plops him in the &wrong trousers& a pair of mechanizd pants which take him on a wild ride Meanwhile the domestic bliss of Wallace & his faithful dog Gromit is shattered when a mysterious penguin leases a room in their home Is the penguin that Wallace has taken into their household a criminal mastermind or is Gromit just jealous of the attention Wallace has been lavishing on their new boarder? The answer is revealed in a thrilling climax that raises the bar for action in the medium of stop-motion animation