Benny Bug is a young bedbug who lives underneath The Great Mattress in the colony of Bedford. The bedbugs of Bedford start out every morning by climbing up The Great Mattress, with the goal of extracting blood from the “Lord Above”. Every day is the same in Bedford, and Benny Bug starts to question this cycle, calling out the colony Elders, saying it's stupid. For saying this, Benny is banished from the city, and forced to wander the rest of the house. Here, he meets other banished bedbugs, who quickly become his companions.