"WHAT THE OCEAN REMEMBERS, THE LIVING HAVE FORGOTTEN."
Children of the Sea shouldn't work as a film. It's plotless, oceanic, deeply strange. And yet. Studio 4°C turned Daisuke Igarashi's manga into a visual poem that makes you feel like you're dissolving into water — which is kind of the point. The cosmos is inside the ocean. You are inside the cosmos.
Ruka can't speak at school, but she can swim. Two mysterious boys named Umi and Sora — raised by dugongs — seem to hold the key to a strange phenomenon: fish are vanishing from aquariums worldwide, drawn to a single inexplicable light.