Jude is an orphan in a small town in south Africa in the early 1930s during the great depression. he is being chased by police, as he is wanted for stealing. he runs away and crashed a sea plane in the middle of the Indian ocean as he sees an island in the distance. he makes an odd, non-human friend as he explores the island and sails across the sea to find the secret, and the truth about the island, and why his odd friend is so... Odd