[3] In this minimalistic, dialog-free tale, a former captain, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, lives with his daughter in an isolated seaside house.
The father and daughter attempt to rescue the whale by dragging it back into the water with their small motorboat, but the efforts fail.
However, he suffers traumatic flashbacks of an earlier incident, when the ship was bombed at sea, leading to the death of his wife when their daughter was still a young girl.
In the morning, the daughter looks out the window and realizes that her father is scuttling his ship, tying it to the whale's tail in an effort to finally save it.
Fortunately, the father eventually floats to the surface, having finally untethered himself from the old boat, and the freed whale swims off into the ocean.