Whale Song in the Deep Sea

Lin Xi, a marine conservation graduate in her previous life, accidentally transmigrates into the body of a humpback whale calf in the warm waters of Antarctica. From her very first mouthful of milk contaminated with microplastics, she embarks on a migration across both poles, seeing the world through the unique perspective of a human soul in a whale's body.

She sees a green sea turtle on the verge of death, strangled by a plastic ring; witnesses coral reefs bleaching en masse as the oceans warm; experiences krill populations plummeting as the Arctic ice cap melts; and bears witness to the countless wounds inflicted on marine life by human waste and illegal fishing. Through the whale songs taught to her by her mother, Yun, she comes to understand the ocean's cycles and ancient memories. By standing together and helping her companions, she learns to use her wits against orca hunts and fishing-net traps.

Over more than seventy years as a whale, she uses her human knowledge to rescue stranded dolphins, sea lions, and sperm whales. With low-frequency whale songs, she brings together an interspecies alliance, and ultimately completes the circle of life in a breathtaking whale fall. This is not merely the life of a humpback whale, but a tear-stained epic of marine ecology. As whale song pierces the gloom of the deep sea, may humanity hear the cry for help from our blue planet and protect this azure home that nurtures all life.