Foy eleven-year-old Hugo Ballard, flying on the Hindenburg is a dream come true. Hugo, his parents, and his four-year-old sister, Gertie, are making the thrilling four-thousand-mile journey across the Atlantic in a zeppelin gets ready to land, a blast rocks the Hindenburg and fire consumes the ship. The entrie disaster lasts a mere thirty-two seconds, but in those few seconds, Hugo finds himself separated from his fmaily and in a desperate race to escape the flames. The Hindenburg is doomed. Asn so, it semes, is Hugo. Will he survive this historis disaster?