Diego, a young camel, lives quietly in the desert with his friends Tony scorpion, Zazie ostrich, fennec Joe and Larry the lizard. One day he found a can containing Ziggy, part raccoon, part genius. After making his first vows 2 (cafeteria for him and his friends and a pool), sand enters the can which acts lampre in engineering. It remains only wish to perform for that Ziggy is free. But the vows made by Diego always turn to disaster and prevents Ziggy take his freedom.
You’re just a kid with your whole life ahead of you, who loves the planet and wants to take care of it ? What if adopting an organic and vegetal being of monstrous size was the key to success?
That's what Charlie, 6 years old, and her brother Zach, 11 years old, realize when Harrison, a huge, lively and kind plant being, joins their family-life.
By taking in and caring of Harrison, Charlie, Zach and their friends Bintou and Leon, take initiative, DISCOVER how to RECONNECT WITH NATURE.
Harrison and the kids act together and learn with humor to always consider nature.
Each episode is related to NATURE in its own way, and stages an EMOTIONAL ISSUE through which our heroes will evolve !
Touch the Sun was a television series commissioned by the Australian Children's Television Foundation in 1988 as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations. It may have been intended that seven feature-length episodes were produced, one for each State, plus the Northern Territory, but only six were completed. Executive producer was Patricia Edgar in association with the ABC and production company Revcom.