Dutch-German, partly dramatised documentary about the white whale that surfaced in the polluted Rhine river in the German Ruhr region, 300 kilometres from the sea, on 18 May 1966. The hunt on the beluga that was soon launched out of dubious interests caused great political unrest in both Germany and Holland. The film is interlarded with archival footage of German and Dutch newscasts, eyewitness accounts, but also with new images of the coast of Canada, where the white whale comes from.
