Hamish X and his friends Parveen and Mimi are planning their escape from the Windcity Orphanage and Cheese Factory when the Cheesebeard of Snow Monkey Island and his band of pirates attack the factory. The pirates kidnap the cheese master Viggo, orphanage employee Mrs. Francis, and the orphans and it is up to Hamish X and his friends to travel across the Arctic and deal with the pirates.