Two men fish for sharks to sell. Later, one man brings along woman whose behavior creates fissions in their relationship.

A young man falls in love with a traveler during his summer job while a shark terrorizes his town.

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.

A fisherman begins to isolate himself from his peers after his family members pass away, but when a school of dolphins call out and guide him one day on the water, the man experiences a transformative moment.

After ten years a man returns to the shore where he encounters a mysterious woman and becomes intertwined in a web of memories, family tension, and unexplainable occurences.

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.

In a dance hall in San Fransisco, a young man is confronted by a massive older sailor who wishes to win over one of the dancing girls. When the dancer rejects the sailor yet again, the young man recognizes her power over the sailor and daydreams about his own romantic fantasies.

On the beaches of a remote British Caribbean Island, a mixed-race family enjoys a relaxing vacation. However, a simple conversation with a local white woman about the island soon evolves into one of introspection and racial discrimination.

After the death of her son, a Japanese mother visits Hawaii every year and builds relationships in the small town where he died.

A low-income Hispanic fisherman struggling to support his ill wife risks his career and legal autonomy when he agrees to go on a fishing trip with a careless co-worker who is storing a large sum of money near the fisherman's property.