Tyrone Clancy's father Randon is chosen to participate in the Ironman Triathlon, in Hawaii. Along with his mother and two sisters, Tyrone, fourteen, accompanies his father to the Big Island for the final week of training. Randon's youngest girl is swept from the rocks into the water. Rice Cooked, a Hawaiian eeler, who with his daughter Palani has been fishing the holes in the lava rock, rescues the girl. But he himself thrown onto the rocks. Thus...