The film tells about two different ways of worldview, two types of intelligent and very different relationships with the world, drawing parallels between human civilization and the world of cetaceans. Along with a large number of facts testifying the similarity between humans and cetaceans "the same body temperature, live birth, empathy, oxygen respiration, names, family life, love to play, complex language, similar illnesses such as flu or depression, complex social organization - including kindergarten classes, funerals, etc.", the authors focus on the key difference in the ways of dealing with the world, pointing to the leading creative motive inherent to whales and dolphins. Metaphorically looking at cetacean's way of life as in a mirror, the authors come to the conclusion that the solution to our - human - civilizations questions "is not to become dolphins, but to respond to the universe as they do", meaning by this focusing on what is happening now and here, allowing us to be in direct contact with each other and the whole world.
—Ivan Matveyev