Alyssa is a troubled 14-year old, suspended from school a year after her mother has drowned. Her grandmother Lucy, at wit's end, decides to take Alyssa to her father, James, whom Alyssa thought was dead for years. He studies dolphin communication at Smith's Point, on the Grand Bahama Island. James has not known of Alyssa's existence and is clueless about parenthood. The women arrive at the same time that James may lose his research operation to a tourist attraction. Father, daughter, dolphins, and town are on a collision course. Alyssa and James get encouragement from James's girlfriend and her father. It's the dolphins who can teach, and Alyssa who discovers how to listen.
Carly Schroeder
as Alyssa
Adrian Dunbar
as Dr. James Hawk
George Harris
as Daniel
Katharine Ross
as Lucy
Christine Adams
as Tamika
Jane Lynch
as Glinton
Andrea Bowen
as Candace
Kelly Vitz
as Michelle
Rudy Levarity
as Coakley
Joey Jameka
as Decker
Vivica Watkins
as Cornelia
Greg Lee
as Principal McGowan
