Vestmannaeyjar, the Westmann Islands, a paradise at the end of the world where the molten lava runs close to the surface, and the puffins circle tirelessly above their precarious homes built on sheer cliff faces; the place that the star of Free Willy ( Keiko ) has chosen to make his home; a calm and wonderous haven in a freezing, thundering sea, where the hardy meet the artistic and the wild.