Little Red Hen finds a grain of wheat and asks her friends - a pig, duck, mouse, and her daughter - to help plant it. They all refuse. When it is time to harvest the wheat, then take it to the mill to be ground into flour, and knead the dough for bread, her friends again refuse. Little Red Hen does all the work herself. When the bread is done baking, the friends want to eat it but Little Red Hen refuses and eats it herself since she did all the work.