Fresh out of bee school, best buddies Barry B. Benson (Seinfeld) and Adam (Matthew Broderick) now have to enter the working world and choose a career within 'Honex', the bee hive-running corporation, where they will work for the rest of their lives.

But for Barry, this mundane life-plan fills him with dread as he longs to join the pollen-jocks, those bees charged with the duty of collecting honey beyond the walls of the hive.

And so, in a brilliantly realised scene, Barry realises his dream as he flies out of the hive through Central Park, ending up on the windowsill of florist, Vanessa Bloome (Zellweger), whom he talks to despite the bee commandment: bees must never speak to humans.

The pair strike up an uncanny friendship despite their physical differences, and during a shopping trip at a local supermarket, Barry discovers that the humans are robbing the bees of all their honey.

With the help of his best pal Adam, Barry and Vanessa decide to bring a law-suit against the humans for its exploitation of bees.