Will the great white whale kill them all? A young man named Ishmael has signed up to work on a shaling ship called the Pequod. He and the rest of the crew will spend two years at sea. They plan to hunt as many whales as possible and bring home a fortune. But once the Pequod is at sea, the mad Cptain Ahab allows the men to track only one whate, the dangerous while beast called Moby Dick. Ahab is willing to rish everything to kill the whale. And Ishmael fears that Ahab's obsession may lead everyone on the Pequodto a watery grave...