After Soren, a young owlet, is pushed from his family's nest by his older brother, he's plucked from the forest floor by agents from a mysterious school, the St Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls. When Soren arrives at St Aggie's, he suspects there is more to the school than meets the eye. He and his new friend, the clever and scrappy Gylfie, find out that St Aggie's is actually a training camp where the school's leader can groom young owls to help achieve her goal-to rule the entire owl kingdom.