Gina and Robbie, an eclectic couple struggling to “stay afloat” whilst living on a sailboat in an expensive beachside town, get a taste of how the other half lives when they housesit for a successful businessman.

In the near future, a pandemic has ravaged the earth. Fear, greed and destruction have made way for such terrors as famine, pirates, and zombies. Cairo Yazid's only chance for survival is to join forces with a curmudgeon, Solomon, also still untouched by the fatal virus, and he is the only one who knows the secret location of the safe place known simply as The Cove.

Four tweens develop a life-long friendship when they discover an injured mystical sea creature. They go to extreme lengths to protect it from selfish scoundrels set on capturing it and harming it for their own profit.