With enough wine to last forever, a lone submarine prowls the depths. Oceans, days, and years glide slowly by. Filet mignon, sardines, baked flounder, mussels, crustaceans large and small, each in turn give way to Vera, Bianca, and Lieutenant Gerald Mitkof aboard the submarine USS Recluse as they carry out their destiny to map the deepest recesses of the deepest parts of life's never-ending. . .Places.