The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick. Ethan Hawke & William Hurt star in this new version of the classic take of a sea captain's duel with the great white whale. Ishmael sees his dream of a whaling voyage come true when he joins the crew of the Pequod, a sailing vessel leaving port in Nantucket. Unbeknownst to Ishmael and the mates, the Pequods monomaniacal Captain Ahab is taking them all on a mad and personal mission to slay the great white whale, Moby Dick.