Katharine Ross

Teenage Alyssa is taken to live with her estranged father in the Bahamas, where she discovers a gift for communicating with dolphins. But when her father's dolphin research facility is threatened, the girl and her cetacean friend hold the key.

Teenage Alyssa is taken to live with her estranged father in the Bahamas, where she discovers a gift for communicating with dolphins. But when her father's dolphin research facility is threatened, the girl and her cetacean friend hold the key.

Written by multiple Emmy Award Winner Wendell Morris, fourteen year old Alyssa (Carly Schroeder: "The Lizzie McGuire Movie", "Gracie") has been living with her grandmother (Academy Award Nominated Katharine Ross) since the death of her mother a year ago. Troubled and lost, it is decided she should go to the Bahamas to live with the father she never knew she had. Caught in the difficult realization of having a father, coupled with the adjustment to island culture, she seeks refuge in the discovery of the astonishing gift she has for communicating with dolphins. But when the powers-that-be threaten to close down her father’s dolphin research facility, it is Alyssa and her wild cetacean friend who hold the key.

A troubled 14-year-old goes to live with her father at his dolphin lab in the Bahamas, where she finds her gift for communicating with the animals.