Piscine Patel (known as Pi), a religious boy from Pondicherry, is part of a family who, under the motivation of India’s disastrous political state, decides to move to Canada. After the cargo ship sets sail to Canada the ship begins to sink and Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat with a hyena, orangutan, zebra and tiger, Richard Parker. All the animals die at the hands of each other, except for Richard Parker, who saves Pi from the hyena and once again from a desperate blind Frenchman at sea who tries to kill Parker in an attempt of cannibalism. Pi and Parker then reach an island and struggle to stay alive. Pi, every day, is faced with the battle of surviving. The will to live is something exerted by all the creatures Pi encounters. The zebra
