Comps: Moana in spirit, Train Your Dragon in imagery and tone, with a touch of Avatar
Act 1
Nick, is a ‘techy’ college student, out for adventure, and money for school. He’s landed a plumb job on an ArcTech survey ship in the arctic ocean to manage the sea ice. He’s amazed by the turquoise blue ice, the funny fat puffins and walruses basking on the flows, until overhears the captain revealing that the real plan is to permanently melt the sea ice and take control of the open shipping lanes. Nick is discovered and thrown overboard.
Sedy is a teenage Inuit girl living in a small remote village on Nunavik Bay. She thinks of herself as just a girl from the far end of away, even though her mom reminds her that she’s named after the Sea Goddess Sedna, mother of the sea and all sea life. She wants to leave to study music and fashion, but there’s no money, and she knows she’ll end up as one of the old ladies in the Rec center. She sits on a rock on the shore of the bay dreaming as her friend Russ, a huge walrus, brings something unexpected. It’s Nick, on a small ice flow, nearly frozen. Sedy, and her family, nurse Nick back from the underworld. He tells Sedy of the plot to melt the sea ice forever, ending their way of life. Sedy feels powerless. Her mom and dad decide it’s time that Sedy realizes that she 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 buy it until she performs the musical midnight ancestor ritual of the aurora, where 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. Nick proposes they board the ArcTech ship to find and retrieve 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. Nick, Sedy and Russ set out to convince the animal tribes to help defeat ArcTech. The walruses, born performers, sign on to the show. Orcas revere Sedy as a goddess and join. The bears are bribed with salmon and join. The show is a spectacular distraction. Nick sneaks onto the ship, finds a map of the plan and discovers that activation is imminent. 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, activating a device below their boat causing massive methane bubbles that sink their boat. Sedy, frustrated, yells out, “I’m a lousy goddess!” Surrounding ice flows converge, lift up their dinghy and form a blue ice cathedral, 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 ice-hall. 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 another distraction, and time it to coincide with a midnight solar eclipse. The orcas gather methane devices to place under the ArcTech ship. The show; 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 a video of Sedy’s performance. Sedy, sings an Inuit victory song as aurora borealis flash, and the methane bubbles rise to sink the ship. Nick and Sedy watch from a distance as the sun again dances on the edge of the water. Nick sends the performance video to Sedy’s dream school and surprises her with a letter of full scholarship. She’ll be a star, a real Goddess!
The End.
“ARCTIC”