MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAYDAY. This is flight Foxtrot, Alpha, 092 calling Angmassalik . 1932 John wants to be part of the first family to fly around the world. Colin wants to stay at home, not sail out on a fishing trawler into the Arctic Ocean where his father drowned. But one little accident leads to disaster, and that means the boys have to overcome their fears for an adventure far from home, in one of the coldest, harshest places on earth.