As a young girl, Portia Oakeshott dreamed of caring for the reconstructed dinosaurs roaming the preserve near the south pole of her home planet, New New South Wales.

Now, as a volcanic eruption devastates the preserve, company headquarters orders her to rescue two politicians playing tourist in the path of a lava flow.

She must decide on her own what to do for a Diluvicursor—a loovy—caught on the track of destruction.