In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.

Poor Sicilian fishermen are exploited by fish wholesalers. One of the families is trying to escape them by being their own bosses and buying their own boat. But nobody helps them, and even the weather and fate are against them. How can they win in a wild world?—Yepok

Against the backdrop of extreme poverty in the late-1940s fishing village of Aci Trezza, the Valastros, an impecunious family of working-class fishermen, struggle to eke out a living. Refusing to bow down and accept this dire situation lying down, the desperate 'Ntoni Valastro summons up the courage to cut out the rapacious middlemen and buys a small fishing boat after mortgaging their decrepit house. However, fate has other plans, and the results of 'Ntoni's middleman-free enterprise are disastrous. Who can stand on his feet when the Earth trembles?—Nick Riganas

In 1947, in Sicily near Catania, the fishermen in Aci Trezza for have been exploited by the local middlemen for generations. Young 'Ntoni Valastro rebels against the economical situation of his poor family and convinces them to mortgage their simple house in the Fidania Bank in Catania to buy their own fishing boat and never work again for the wholesalers. He decides to go fishing during a storm because of the necessity to repay the debt to the bank.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil