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Her father, Merdocai, has surrendered himself to the evil Marquis to be experimented upon for the Greater Good; and with her mother long-dead, all Teo has to keep her going is the love of her sister, her father, and her friend Rodrigo, a stuttering poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs Teo ventures deeper into the forest, she encounters creatures and teachers who hold the answers to all the questions she has about who she is and where she has come from. Meanwhile, out in the depths of the ocean, a whale is returning to the place he was born, to exhale his last breath. While Teo does not know this, he too holds secrets that belong to Teo's story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Whale's Last Song\u003c\/em\u003e is a tender, sweet, and wise fable, on what we are prepared to do for those we love; a celebration of the beauty and mystery of being alive in a world in which we are part of everything, and everything is part of us; and a love song to the natural world. 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