The plot of which surrounds Sherman, an inventor desperately attempting to achieve first flight. However, his attempts are as overzealous as the ill-fated engineer himself, making him the butt of many cruelly penned satires by the media. Enter a well-intentioned alien race who endeavour to aid the hapless hero, but we soon learn that the intergalactic intervention staged by our alien counterparts is to be just as fraught with comic misadventure.