Pecola is a young penguin who lost his parents and resides with his Grandfather, Pecolias. Cube Town is a remote small coastal village featuring an art museum, a beach, a lighthouse marked with the number 36 above its entrance, and a canal. It sits beside Crescent Bay, surrounded by the Rookery Mountains coastal range, and is regularly visited by ships, including a weekly freighter that brings mail, food, supplies, and occasional tourists from a nearby large city called Cubic City. The heights above the town lead into Glacier Valley, which remains covered in snow even during summer.