A teenage Inuit girl, from a remote village, enlists a Silicon Valley college guy who washed up on shore, and a host of arctic animals, to help thwart a corporate plot to permanently melt the polar ice and take control of the arctic ocean. 

SYNOPSIS:

Act 1

Nick, a ‘techy’ engineering student, is up for an adventure and, of course, to make some summer money for school. He’s flown out to a plumb job on an ArcTech Corporation survey ship in the arctic ocean as the sea ice is breaking up. He’s amazed by the turquoise blue ice, the funny fat puffins and walruses basking on the flows, the orca pods and the aurora borealis, until he overhears the boss, on a phone call to corporate, that the real plan is to permanently melt the sea ice and take control of the resulting open shipping lanes. When Nick is discovered, the boss tosses him overboard into the frigid water.

Sedy is a teenage Inuit girl living in a small and very remote village on Nunavik Bay. She’s tired of mom reminding her that she’s named after the Inuit Sea Goddess Sedna, mother of the sea and all sea life. She just wants to leave to study music and fashion, but she’s torn. She’s afraid she’s not good enough, and no one wants to hear from a girl from the far edge of away. She also doesn’t want to leave her family and friends, especially one with flippers, i.e. Russ, a young walrus. One late evening as the sun dances on the water, Russ brings something unexpected. It’s Nick, on a small ice flow, nearly frozen. As Sedy, and her family nurse Nick back from the underworld, he tells Sedy of the plot to melt the sea ice forever, ending the Inuit way of life. Sedy feels powerless, so her mom and dad decide it’s time to reveal that Sedy carries the spirit of the goddess, not just the name, and that it’s time to accept who she is to save the life they know. Sedy doesn’t believe it until the musical midnight ritual of the aurora, where her every emotion of Sedy’s performance appears in the shimmering aurora, and she begins to see who she is and what she must do.

Act 2

ArcTech must be stopped. The ice is already melting too early. Nick proposes they board the ArcTech ship to find evidence, but Sedy’s no spy. She’s a performer. Russ pipes up, “So let’s put on a show!” Shock! Since the ceremony Sedy and Nick can understand the animals and visa versa. The walruses, regal orcas, fat puffy puffins and voracious polar bears, would perform and distract the ArcTech crew while Sedy performs and Nick investigates. Nick, Sedy and Russ bond as they try to convince the animal tribes to help defeat ArcTech. The walruses, born performers, sign on to the show. Orcas revere Sedy and join. The bears are bribed with salmon and join. The show is spectacular. Nick sneaks onto the ship, finds a map of the plan and discovers that the plan will activate soon. Worse yet, Nick is seen, but escapes without his phone and the photo evidence of the plot.

Sedy, Nick and Russ regroup at home. They borrow a fishing boat, and with the map from the spy mission, they start pulling up the underwater devices, with the help of the animals. ArcTech finds them and activates a device below their boat causing a massive methane release that sinks their boat, leaving them stranded in a dinghy. In failure and frustration Sedy yells out, “I’m a lousy goddess!” Surrounding ice flows converge, lift up the dinghy and form a blue ice cave, the Hall of the Ancestors. Nick sits with her and throws an ice stone at an icicle. It rings like a magical bell. He hits more icicles. Sedy sings. The magic is in her voice. The music builds, the ocean glows blue, whales, walruses and puffins join in at the cave. Sedy has a revelation of faith in herself that allows them to move forward. Then Russ pipes up, “Why don’t we just sink their boat?”

Act 3

Nick & Sedy plan an extravaganza, a new “show with teeth,” as a distraction, and time it to coincide with a midnight solar eclipse. The orcas gather methane devices to place under the ArcTech ship. Emerging from the sea mist, in white flowing arctic regalia, Sedy rides an orca, followed by the walruses and bears on a floating ice stage. They perform while Nick boards the ship to activate the devices to sink it. The captain is not fooled. He sends his 1st mate to intercept Nick. He’s caught. The captain gloats. And to prove his superiority he activates the devices himself, sealing his own fate. Nick escapes. He records video of Sedy’s performance. Sedy, sings an Inuit victory song as aurora borealis flash, and the methane bubbles sink the ship. Nick and Sedy watch from a distance as the sun again dances on the edge of the water. Nick send the performance video to Sedy’s dream school and surprises her with a letter of full scholarship. She’ll be a star, a Goddess!

The End.

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