The film is about the adventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III – The 11 year old son of a Viking chieftain, who must capture a dragon for a rite of passage. Set on the Isle of Berk (next to North Island, Meathead Island and Cannibal Isle), a group of 10 youths of the Hooligan tribe (from Hooligan Village), are being lead by “Gobber the Belch” to perform their first military operation — To catch their own dragon. Those who are not able to catch and train a dragon are exiled from the tribe. This military operation has to be done by every Hooligan – with the military op being culture and tradition of the Hooligans – a test known as “The Dragon Initiation Programme”.