Dead Horse Bay

In 2010 in Dead Horse Bay in Brooklyn in New York City an unlikely trio come together to save geese that are scheduled to be killed.After a plane collides with a flock of geese forcing it to make an emergency landing in the Hudson River the local authorities decide to kill all the geese within a 7-mile radius of New York City airports. Tanisha a twenty-something student at Brooklyn Law School and a member of the activist group Goose Watch is committed to saving them a mission she understands will be a challenge. She finds a partner in Marty a cranky but charming 73-year-old New Yorker who happens to own a sailboat their means of getting out to Kennedy Airport the site of the one of the goose kills. Marty is initially unmoved by the birds plight; he confesses Im not sure that I care for geese. However he is angry about Kennedy Airports construction which led to the destruction of the local environment a once-vibrant aquatic community (and Martys playground as a child) reduced to a dead zone. Marty also remembers the disruption that the airport caused at school as the first jets took off from the airport; the jets were so noisy that they drowned out the teachers starting what became known as jet-stop teaching. Eventually Marty comes to care for the geese as much as Tanisha and is inspired to hatch various plans (some of them hilarious) to save them a dedication that gets him into trouble with the law and links the pair with Don a former duck hunter now haunted by the death he once caused. Will Marty Tanisha and Don be able to save the geese?