For the vacationers aboard the luxury spaceship Stardust, the journey doesn't end on the beach of their dreams, but as castaways on the surface of the unknown planet Ythaq. The fearless navigator Granit, the friendly onboard technician Narvarth, and the temperamental passenger Callista try to make their way to the rest of the survivors. Across a planet whose inhabitants have their own ideas about what to do with the wreck and the survivors. The situation is made even more complicated when the mismatched trio accidentally flattens a few huts of the native Banfoo during their emergency landing, which leads the locals to respond with their favorite pastime: they take them to court. And that can be quite a short process...