If a person was born in the basket of a hot air balloon in distress, there is no need to go to a fortune teller - he will grow up to be an aviator. Moreover, the father of Conor Brockhart, the future conqueror of the sky, captain of the guard of a modest island state, is in the service of the romantic king, for whom fame and wealth are nothing compared to caring for his subjects. And everything seems to go on as usual, nothing disturbs the idyll, but one unlucky day a coup takes place in the state, the good king is killed, and the evil general Bonvilan is installed in his place. But it cannot be that a man born in the air would resign himself with such injustice. And Conor Rockhart begins to fight...