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In front of a blackboard, Remy and Emile face the camera, vowing to seek justice for all their fellow rats who have suffered persecution and unfair treatment at the hands of humans. From their narration, we learn that rats are the mounts of the Hindu deity Ganesha, and in the history of the Roman Empire, black and white rats respectively represented omens of misfortune and good fortune. In 1347, black rats arrived in Europe with the retreating Crusaders, and the fleas they carried triggered the Black Death, which wiped out one-third of Europe's population. Additionally, there are brown rats, named after their Chinese origins but dwelling in Denmark and referred to as "Norwegian rats"; the war between brown rats and black rats; the rat eradication policies in Alberta, Canada; the dietary habits of rats; and the immense contributions rats have made to space experiments and scientific research—all of this demonstrates the inseparable and intimate relationship between these seemingly repulsive, dirty little creatures and humans... This film won the Best Short Film award at the 35th Annie Awards and is a DVD bonus short for *Ratatouille*.