At the end of a long journey, Captain Ahab returns to the mainland to confront the true author of the novel Moby Dick, his former shipmate Ishmael. For Ahab was not pulled into the oceans, deaths by a harpoon line, and the greatly exaggerated rumors of his untimely death have caused him grievous harm — after hearing it about Ahab‘s demise, his wife and child left Nantucket for New York, and now Ahab is on a desperate quest to find them.