Kujirai Taichi has been selected to be the leader of the staff at the Taiji Municipal Whale Museum. Despite enlisting the aid of Shiraishi Yui who came from a Tokyo aquarium, and the museum curator Mashiba Nozomi, Taichi and the staff are perplexed by the low turnout of visitors. Then Taichi hits upon the idea to hold a staff created "whale festival" in order to generate hype for the museum. One day however, the "whale festival" is in danger of being cancelled as the opening quickly approaches.

Whale-shaped Dream

Itsuki, a young director, begins making a film with a homeless girl she meets one day as the protagonist. However, this leads her to confront the distorted reality that she had been pretending not to notice.

Mudai

Tsubaki, a high school senior, was at a point in her life where she needed to think about her future. However, her circumstances were far from ordinary. 4 years prior, her father, Hideaki, had committed a murder, taking the life of an elementary school boy. Since then, Hideaki had disappeared and was presumed dead.