Episode #1
The mom is a career woman in some oil company being offered a CEO job connected to taking
over a very critical off-shore project. That would mean kind of a career goal. The father is a
small fisherman who is very doubtful about it. It has been an issue for all their relationship but
they do love each other. This time they get into a fight. The father is bringing up the fish decline
and that it might be connected to climate change which is driven especially by oil companies
(we can bring up the gas-firing, in lack of the perfect term for it).
It’s been a tough season due
to the strong rains and the heat. The mom is stating that it is overestimated since the biggest
issue there is the overfishing by industrial fishing squads out at sea beyond national sea borders.
She is diminishing the impact of her company.
Emily is sad about their fight and takes off. Maybe she is before trying to mediate between her
parents but isn't being listened to.
She leaves the house, meets her funny friend. - The raven cheers her up. Being reminded of the fight - maybe by her father leaving the house in frustration, she might still be in the garden or around the house, she heads for the coast.
There she meets the marine biologist. The biologist is measuring acidity at the shore and
working on data. Explaining the connections, how the ocean is taking up CO², heating up
therefore, becoming more acidic which drives fish out of some areas and making oysters,
shrimps and corals grow smaller.
We can bring up deadzones but also the migration of fish species towards the poles.
In a small dialogue Emily is bringing up her mum’s counterarguments about the industrial
fishing and the marine biologist says that they are responsible for fish decline close to shore as
well. So CO² impacts on climate change and overfishing are summing up and together are a
huge threat to diversity of species and overstress natural reproduction.
After the conversation with the marine biologist Emily sees her father fishing to ease his
frustration, she goes to him and tells him about the scientist she met and what she learnt from
him/her and tells him they should go back home and tell mom about it.
By a simulated further explanation to the parents (covered up and shortened by music) we can
see that the parents understand the issue. The scientist ends with a devastating outlook on
marine life, which wasn´t told before.
The mother becomes thoughtful, looking at emily. She states that she won't take the offer and
she will also quit the job, because she wants her daughter to grow up in a colorful, healthy
world. Everybody is happy for now.
The father will try to unite small fishermen to put pressure upon the big fishing trawlers or
raise attention to another issue.
Emily asks: “And what can I do?” - answer to be found