The earth appears to be getting warmer and the polar ice cap is melting. The ozone layer is receding. The sky is about to tear wide open and the results will be devastating. This is the story of Lucy, Whitey and Thomas the Inuit, three teenage orphans who run away from home in a beat up school bus named the Pequod, then take off to find The Far North and hopefully prevent a worldwide environmental catastrophe.

Saving the world however, may prove to be far easier than saving their best friend as Lucy struggles to understand the loss of her family, and wonders about the meaning of her own...