Spike is a little hedgehog who wants to hug his friends but he’s afraid of hurting them with his bristles. Every time he thinks about hugging his friends his head fills with negative thoughts that stop him from going ahead. He is so miserable that he hatches a crazy plan: he will get rid of his bristles! He has it all figured out. What he doesn’t realise is that his friends do too. Will Spike finally get to hug his woodland friends?