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Thetitledesignatestheheartofthisfilm–awhaleboneboxtiedwithfishingnetandfoundwashedupontheshore.Isitanenigmaticobjectcontainingasecret?Arelic,asurvivorfromamysteriousshipwreck,orperhapspossessingmagicpowers?No-oneknows,exceptthatitwasgiventoIanSinclair,writer,filmmaker,psychogeographerandAndrewKötting’swalkingcompanioninhislatest“jaunt-themed”films.TheysetoutonanexpeditiontotakethisboxfromLondontoitsplaceoforigin,abeachontheIsleofHarrisinScotland’sOuterHebrides.Thetripisnottosolvethemystery,buttofeelitspowers.Inparalleltothisjourney,faraway,isAndrewKötting’sdaughterEden,whohasalreadyappearedinseveralofhisearlierfilms.Thisfilmalsosetsoffonaverydifferentvoyage.While,asIainpointsout,theobjectseems“heavierandheavier,turningintoadifferentsubstance”,Eden,sufferingfromJoubertsyndrome,shapesthefilmwithherunfathomablebeing.“Whatcanyousee?Whereareyou?”wehear,murmursrepeatedthroughoutthefilmbythefatheraddressingtheyoungwoman.Fromthedepthsofhersleeporadornedwithamagnificentcrownofflowersandbinoculars,sheisthefilm’smuse,itsguideandoracle.Thisgenerousodysseyalsotakesusonafewdetours,includingviadeadpoetsBasilBuntingandSorleyMacLeanandthesculptorSteveDilworth–andfurtherstill,withsuccessivetouches,viaotherboxes,otherseas,othermysteries,otherwhalesandotherquests,fromPandoratoMobyDick.Thefilmshouldalsobeheardasacryfromthedepths,anofferingandamagnificentodetoEden,anartistwhosework,Köttingtellsus“isrootedinanelsewhere”.(N.F.)