Synopsis
Nim is the daughter of the scientist Jack. When she goes to live with him on a Pacific Island - where he is doing some research - she finds new friends: Fred the iguana, Chica the turtle, and Selkie, the sea lion. Her only contact with the outside world are the emails she exchanges with a Newyorker woman, a writer who is agoraphobic. When Jack goes on a boat trip and doesn’t come back, Nim asks her girlfriend for help. The woman has to help her little friend. In order to save Nim she has to forget all her phobias.