His daughter, Mary Kate, and granddaughter, Carly, move from Texas to live with him after the death of Mary Kate's husband.

Feeling lost and missing her father, Carly bonds with the young dog, Little Chuck. We go behind the scenes as Carly helps Hank prepare the dogs and his liberty horses for film work and then see excerpts from the finished films...a western, a commercial with a police chase and K-9 unit, a television detective series and a tongue-in-cheek horror movie, "Alien Vampire Invaders from the Planet Zephyr."

Along the way, we meet several veteran actors from film and television. It is a warm family story highlighted by a fantasy sequence with Carly as a world famous animal trainer.