Axle Dormer has spent his whole life in his home town of Gorkweegle – an isolated, rust bucket, scrap metal town that’s surrounded by a giant canyon in the middle of the desert. Ever since he can remember he has yearned for adventure, but his town’s strict rules have prevented the possibility – “…one rule that I’ve known ever since the day I was born… never, under any circumstances, go past the Canyon.”
But after playing out in the desert one day, Axle and his friends somehow fall into the Canyon. And with no way out, they realise they must venture further in the hope of finding help. Axle soon finds out that the adventure he seeks isn’t quite what it seems, and he may be about to uncover a terrible secret that his home town of Gorkweegle has buried for decades…