It is a series of dramatic events about a man named Michael Kingley, a retired successful businessman trying to remember his past. Kingley begins to see images of his past that he can not explain but remembers his long-forgotten childhood. It seems that the boy's childhood was good as he grew up on an isolated coast with his father and tells his granddaughter a story when he was a child where he managed to save an extraordinary orphanage pelican, Mr. Percival.