Giant “whale” airships float in the skies, glide from one floating city to another, looking down on what is happening far below. Predatory “sharks” of pirates flock together and attack earthly cities. States are at war, and corporations are trying to pick up the crumbs falling from their tables. And in the small Wendish town of Melling lives a lonely boy named Rick Chernov... Lives? Survives in a huge airship dump, the so-called whale graveyard. And only perseverance and knowledge brought from a past life, short but eventful and completely unhappy, save him. But it is these memories that make him stronger, fueling the will to live, the dream of flight and... revenge. Revenge for the second childhood, twisted by someone else's will, and parents who perished in the fire of an explosion during a pirate attack on a peaceful, quiet town. And even though his dreams are far from being realized, someday he will certainly achieve his goal and lift into the air the best airship on the planet, from which not a single pirate will be able to escape. This Rick knows for sure.