The film, a shocking piece of advocacy filmmaking about dolphin slaughter in Japan, follows a group of determined environmental commandos as it attempts to document the clandestine killing of the mammals in a small fishing village of Taiji. The team includes Ric O'Barry, who became famous decades ago as the man who both captured and trained the five dolphins who collectively became TV's Flipper. After one of the trained dolphins died in his arms, O'Barry had a major change of heart and became an uncompromising free-the-dolphins zealot.
