Widowed coastal fishing village resident Holland Wren finds an orphaned girl named Maya adrift at sea. The five-and-a-half-year-old Maya is born with the ability to communicate with marine life, a Lucky Charm gifted by the ocean. Maya leads swarms of crabs, attracts large yellow croakers, saves giant whales, finds Cuttlefish Bone to cure Grandma's eye disease, resolves jealousy from other village women and extortion from her biological mother. She warns the entire village before storm surges arrive, and rides a whale to rescue fishermen out at sea. The mother and daughter spend all their savings repairing the village dock, share their fishing catches, earn official commendation from local authorities, and the once-poor fishing village is renamed Sea Fortune Village. The family lives by the clear blue sea, gaining the warm affection of the entire village and peaceful, stable lives year after year.
