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

When she gets a call on her birthday from her estranged brother, a Cuban-American woman must confront the day her family fell apart.

After one of her father's notebooks is recovered from an icecap, a woman recalls the love story between her mother, a rural woman who always wanted adventure, and her father, an adventurous explorer who disappeared on a voyage to the Arctic.

After cancer sends his wife to the hospital, a Maine lobsterman brings his youngest daughter home for a day to tie up loose ends at the house. After a tragic accident at sea, their night takes an ugly turn.

When a paddle-boating excursion goes wrong, a family makes one final sweet memory to cling onto during the years of separation and sadness that follow.

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

The youngest child and only boy in a fishing family of seven children grows up on the Nova Scotia coast. There, he must choose whether to follow in the family tradition of fishing, as his mother wants, or to follow his passion for books that his father instilled in him.

When a fisherman takes his son and nephew on a duck hunting trip on Christmas Day, their boat takes off while they are on a ledge, leaving them stranded in the dead of winter as the tide rises.

A somber woman mysteriously walks along the Rotherhithe docks for years. One day, she tells a stranger the disturbing story of her son who vanished at sea.

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.