Somewhere in a place so far ur there is no down,a ship is waiting to take the nomes home-back to wherever they came from.And one nome,Masklin,knows that they`ve got to try and contact this ship.It means going to Florida (wherever that is),than getting to the launch of a communications satellite (wherever that is).A ridiculous plan.Impossible.But Masklin doesn`t this,so he tries to do it anyway.And the first step is to try and hitch a ride on a new kind of truck,a truck with wings-Concorde… The final title in a magnificent trilogy,The Bromeliad.