In a world where animals no longer exist, twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes sometimes feels like he hardly exists either.

Locked away in a home for troubled children, he's told there's something wrong with him.

So when he meets a flock of talking pigeons, Kester thinks he's finally gone a bit mad.

But the animals have something to say...The pigeons fly Kester to a wild place where the last creatures in the land have survived, and where a wise stag needs Kester's help.

The animals saved Kester Jaynes. But can Kester save the animals?