Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.

"In the early years of the 20th century, a semi-clandestine lighter-than-air movement was hard at work in Southern California. Groups like the East LA Balloon Club aimed to revolutionize travel, literally lifting oppressed people up through the use of airships known as dirigibles. ELADATL is a breathtaking free fall into the long-buried history of that utopian era, as told by its death-defying, aero-acrobatic heroes. In a series of overlapping narratives...