The fat little bear and the sea. An existentialist tale with no echoes of Hemingway but oceans of Russian melancholy and, literally, depth. Misha sets out for sea in his new boat. A skirmish with Soviet sharks is only an appetizer for the real challenges: a mosquito of the dreaded Mu-8 variety, followed by glutinous marine monsters that gorge themselves on atomic-submarine-sized blue whales, turn into fighter planes, destroy Misha's boot and send him back to the shore no more than a shadow of his former self. Misha arms himself for the showdown. The sea is calling.