Emmeline Grant's dream was to join her father (Dr. Ethan Grant, naturalist and explorer) on an adventure. At last the chance arrives, but nothing is as Emmy, 13, expected. Sailing a route to the Falkland Islands with her governess, Emmy finds herself in Pletonia: where enormous fish fly, monstrous bee-like creatures hunt and kill, and people insist they have lived as animals. Emmy can't wait to reunite and share her drawings with her father, but first...