Call Me Ishmaelle

I must find freedom on the seas... In 1843, in a small village on the stormy Kent coast, Ishmaelle is born. She grows up swimming with dolphins and eventually - desperate for a life at sea - she disguises herself as a cabin boy and travels to New York. As the American Civil War breaks out, Ishmaelle boards a whaling s. ship led by the obsessive Captain Seneca, a Black free man of heroic stature who is haunted by a tragic past.
Here, she finds protectors amidst the bloody male violence of whaling and discovers a mysterious bond between herself and the mythical white whale Moby Dick...