
His attitude extends to all he meets at the aquarium, but he becomes immediately fascinated with the aquarium's latest acquisition, a killer whale named Willy.

The couple are warm and hospitable to Jesse, but he rejects any of their efforts of friendship. The authorities make a deal with Jesse to work at the aquarium repairing the damage and removing the graffiti, and they place him with new foster parents, Annie and Glen. In his latest skirmish, after a day of begging and petty thievery with his companions, Jesse is apprehended while vandalizing an aquarium. Since that time he's been passed from one foster home to another and has had numerous skirmishes with the law. His mother abandoned him and nobody has heard from her in six years.

Jesse is an 11-year-old with a bleak past and not much of a future. Free Willy is a wonderfully moving story about the relationship that develops between a rebellious captive whale and an emotionally troubled young boy.
