A survey team crash-lands on an unknown planet. The planet is dark, and its fetid swamps are filled with flesh-eating flowers, swamp slugs, and dragonsnakes. No one hears the survey team's distress signals. They are stranded.
Thirty years later, Zak and Tash Arranda and their uncle Hoole land on the planet. Descendants of the survey team - half starved and crazed with strange fevers - are still alive. They call themselves the Children, and how they have survived is a mystery. Does the strange creature named Yoda have the answer?
