The Moontrap

There is a place in Canada where the moon is still held to influence the Earth and where the souls of the dead are thought to help catch white whales. For centuries the inhabitants of L'Île-aux-Coudres, a small island in the St. Lawrence, trapped white beluga whales by sinking a corral of saplings into offshore mud at low tide. After 1920 the practice was abandoned. This feature-length film is the unrehearsed story of what happened when oldtimers of the island were persuaded to revive the practice.