Wild Summon (2023) Movie Script
This female salmon in
a last act of resilience
gives her body back to the river.
Hidden in the pebbles near her
decaying body are thousands of eggs.
Each glowing glow holds
one of her precious babies
and the future of her species.
In these first weeks of life,
the newly hatched salmon are
in their most vulnerable state.
They find safety within
their nest of pebbles.
As the seasons change,
the young salmon grow
confident and restless.
It's time to start the
long migration out to sea.
Believing the safety of their
birthplace is a perilous act
and only a handful of them
will ever make it back home.
Tracking this female as
she travels down the river
helps us map her epic journey.
Although the salmon have over
50 natural predators in the wild,
man is by far the deadliest.
As the river cuts through the land,
it widens and turns into an estuary,
the gateway to the open sea.
Here the female salmon will spend time
letting her body adjust
to life in salt water.
Finally, after long months of travel,
she will arrive at her
long-term habitat, the big blue.
Out at sea, she is free and wild.
It's here she will spend most of her life,
feeding and growing stronger,
preparing for the return journey home.
Overfishing has left the
salmon population depleted
and brings her kind close to extinction.
These huge farms produce
most of the salmon we eat,
but it comes at a grim price,
spreading disease and threatening
the future of the wild salmon.
The female salmon has lived
in the ocean for a few years
and now she is ready to start
one of nature's most rigorous
and demanding journeys.
Back home.
Upriver to lay eggs in the exact same place
where she herself was born.
As she travels back,
the constant battle against the flow
and the sudden change to fresh water
takes a heavy toll on her body.
If the rainy season is delayed,
the salmon struggles to move upriver.
She pauses,
waiting for the rain.
When the water comes,
they can set off again,
running the river.
No one knows exactly how
the salmon find their birthriver.
It's as if within its DNA,
this fish holds great distant memories
of endless past journeys.
As the river narrows
and turns into streams,
space becomes limited.
The drive towards the spawning ground
is very powerful now.
Heavily pregnant, starving and exhausted,
she is now nearing her limits.
Somehow, from a million rivers and streams,
she knows which turn to take,
which stream to run.
Until she finds the
particular patch of gravel
she was born on.
She is finally back home.
a last act of resilience
gives her body back to the river.
Hidden in the pebbles near her
decaying body are thousands of eggs.
Each glowing glow holds
one of her precious babies
and the future of her species.
In these first weeks of life,
the newly hatched salmon are
in their most vulnerable state.
They find safety within
their nest of pebbles.
As the seasons change,
the young salmon grow
confident and restless.
It's time to start the
long migration out to sea.
Believing the safety of their
birthplace is a perilous act
and only a handful of them
will ever make it back home.
Tracking this female as
she travels down the river
helps us map her epic journey.
Although the salmon have over
50 natural predators in the wild,
man is by far the deadliest.
As the river cuts through the land,
it widens and turns into an estuary,
the gateway to the open sea.
Here the female salmon will spend time
letting her body adjust
to life in salt water.
Finally, after long months of travel,
she will arrive at her
long-term habitat, the big blue.
Out at sea, she is free and wild.
It's here she will spend most of her life,
feeding and growing stronger,
preparing for the return journey home.
Overfishing has left the
salmon population depleted
and brings her kind close to extinction.
These huge farms produce
most of the salmon we eat,
but it comes at a grim price,
spreading disease and threatening
the future of the wild salmon.
The female salmon has lived
in the ocean for a few years
and now she is ready to start
one of nature's most rigorous
and demanding journeys.
Back home.
Upriver to lay eggs in the exact same place
where she herself was born.
As she travels back,
the constant battle against the flow
and the sudden change to fresh water
takes a heavy toll on her body.
If the rainy season is delayed,
the salmon struggles to move upriver.
She pauses,
waiting for the rain.
When the water comes,
they can set off again,
running the river.
No one knows exactly how
the salmon find their birthriver.
It's as if within its DNA,
this fish holds great distant memories
of endless past journeys.
As the river narrows
and turns into streams,
space becomes limited.
The drive towards the spawning ground
is very powerful now.
Heavily pregnant, starving and exhausted,
she is now nearing her limits.
Somehow, from a million rivers and streams,
she knows which turn to take,
which stream to run.
Until she finds the
particular patch of gravel
she was born on.
She is finally back home.