After young Kirra leaves her Australian home to summer with her grandfather in South Africa, she soon discovers a baby orca stranded in the lagoon near her grandfather’s rundown seaside amusement park. She names the lonely whale Willy--and embarks on a great quest to lead the little guy back to his anxious pod.

This film is dedicated to the memory of BOB·COOK. “我们就像海洋生物一样，我一直这么认为，就像海洋里的生物。一群水中的哺乳动物，一同穿过海洋，心中没有任何的目的。” 小镇让不能相识的小孩成为了朋友，兰斯的母亲在一个拍卖行买下一辆医疗救护车开始送他和另外四个男孩上学。兰斯不知道，这便是他人生中的最好的四个朋友。在小镇里只有保龄球场和海洋可以去玩，他们选择了海洋。每天早上五点一起起床赶去海边冲浪，直到鲍勃得了白血病住院。 直到有一天他们想要偷偷带鲍勃出去冲浪，出乎意料的是鲍勃竟然不愿意。后来他们在海边狂欢着把自己剪成光头去医院把鲍勃“偷”出来，鲍勃这才和他们上路…… 于是开起了他们前往墨西哥各地冲浪的公路之旅……

A small-town beauty queen and an unlicensed mortician set out across the Texas plains on a journey of self-discovery.