In Michigan, a young boy whose parents are going through a divorce spends his days fantasizing about his goldfish, Fish.

After he spots a giant catfish in a river in the southern United States, a farmer dedicates ten years of his life to catching it, and leaves his wife to tend the farm.

A violent boat captain struggles to transfer his animal cargo from Louisiana to Mississippi. His greatest obstacle to his waterborne journey and his absolute sworn enemy? Water lilies.

Two men with very different roots meet through their work in an Oregon Cannery and decide to buy a fishing boat together. After their first boat capsizes, the two split up for a while, until loneliness brings them back together to try to fish again.

In a Georgia stream, a determined fisherman sets out to catch his dream fish, a rainbow trout.

A father witnesses fish floating in mid-air for nearly a minute on the lake near his home, and suspects strange goings on in the mountain just beyond it. When his son mysteriously vanishes from prison without a trace, the father endeavors into the mountain to get answers.

A mother invites a former employee to join her on a boat ride where everything takes a turn for the worse.

When a government official comes to blow up his family’s illegal fish trap, a boy attempts to take revenge on their behalf.

A dying man revisits his lifelong hobby of fishing while confronting memories of his dead grandfather and the traumatic experiences of his childhood.

Some time in the near future, people begin mysteriously disappearing near a dangerously polluted river in Detroit. As these instances continue to occur, a local middle-aged woman begins to question whether the water itself may be to blame.