Once upon a time, young, brown eyed Ken Hendriksen - an only child - and his parents were travelling over halfway from India to South Africa, but the boat crashed in Mozambique island to the point that the humans have escaped. The dad, named Tony, was a scientist who studied geography. The mum, named Georgia, was a mapper.
A few years later, they were trekking through the mountainous west Ugandan savannah. Ken increasingly loves the great outdoors, but is cautious like his parents because of the bad times at work; while some of the Africans would protest against the ruling colonial powers, mostly for good reasons.
All of a sudden, Both the mum and the dad were running away from a gang of rude beast men from the mysterious lost city of Dagon, who are ready to kill them when needed. An hour later, both parents got murdered; and that same old murder left Ken alone in the savannah, struggling for survival.
Ken needs some food and drink. The poor boy has to eat grubs and other kinds of insects for dinner and he's starving! He boils the germ infested water for drinking uses.
As time passes, one of his mum's bloomers - stored poorly in the treehouse - gets cut into a makeshift loincloth, thereafter he has since worn it to cover his cute bikini briefs. In order to destroy the lice eating up his skin, he needs a louse comb to brush them off and a lice shampoo to kill them all. In order to explore more, Ken decides to read the books owned by his parents.