This is another graphic novel that imagines the characters as animals, but isn't a funny animal story. I guess that makes it a serious animal story.

A rabbit steals a document. A bird in a suit and a tiger (?) in a suit go after him. They quarrel about the wisdom of continuing to fight a war that has ended. A goat is supposed to blow up a train but he's kind of a drunken old goat so his trustworthiness is questionable. The rabbit's son picks up where the rabbit left off (a chip off the old hare?). The boy rabbit and his rabbit sister get sent to an orphanage, then the rabbit's son is threatened so he won't testify against the bird in the suit. The rabbit's son needs to search within himself for the courage to tell the truth about this father's fate. There's never much doubt about the outcome, in part because the characters are underdeveloped. When characters aren't multifaceted, it's pretty clear that they'll follow the obvious path.

The text-heavy story overshadows the subtle artwork. With all that text, the story should less confusing, and more compelling, than it turns out to be. A melodramatic courtroom scene doesn't work very well, in part because the conspirator-prosecutor is so obviously manipulating the witness that the judges would have to be blind not to see it. The frosty art is nice -- each panel looks like it belongs on a Norwegian Christmas plate -- but the point of populating this world with talking animals eludes me. Even if the story were about humans, I wouldn't believe it.