A young fisherman goes missing. The complicit captain falsely reports his fall, leaving his Vietnamese wife in shock and his mother in relentless search. Nobody surfaces. Villagers eye the wife’s impending insurance payout. The fisherman had planned to escape with his mother to his wife’s hometown using this money. But the payout requires giving up the search. His mother, unable to let go, ties him to the sea he wished to escape. The captain, once well-intentioned, grows frustrated. With the same temper that ruined his daughter, he decides to end it all.