A young killer whale is abandoned in the waters outside the village of Gold River, British Columbia. Nicknamed Luna, the lonely whale's search for human companionship ignites a political war in the small mill town.

For the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation, Luna represents a manifestation of an ancient belief: the reincarnated spirit of their late chief. For the government’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans, the whale is a bureaucratic nightmare. For the locals, a pet––or a pest. And for a drifting journalist, the story of a lifetime.

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Suggested by true events as collected in The Lost Whale by Michael Parfit and Suzanne Chisholm.