Duarte Menezes, a naval engineer and creator of the NMP DEUS, has everything to lose, but much to gain on the inaugural voyage that takes his ship to the four corners of the globe to show its fantastic potential to possible clients.
However, half way to Australia, fate intervenes in the form of a high magnitude submarine earthquake, which thrusts him, along with the many passengers and crewmembers of the DEUS into an adventure far beyond the world they know.