The film begins with a pod of orcas swimming near the coastline of the Pacific Northwest. The pod is tracked down سے طرف کی a large group of whalers, and one of them, Willy (Keiko the orca), is snared in their nets and taken away to a local amusement park.

Sometime later in Astoria, Oregon, Jesse (Jason James Richter), a troublesome 12-year-old boy who has been on the streets since he was abandoned سے طرف کی his mother six years before, gets caught سے طرف کی the police for stealing food and vandalizing a theme park. Jesse's social worker Dwight earns him a reprieve سے طرف کی finding him a foster ہوم and having him clean...