A fishing family from the Mediterranean island of Malta become stranded at sea after their boat, Simshar, sinks. Their fate gets entwined with the saga of irregular African migrants crossing from Africa to Europe, with tragic consequences.

Young Theo is sent on his first trip with his Maltese sea faring family, but things go terribly wrong when the 'Simshar' sinks, leaving the crew stranded in the Mediterranean... Simultaneously, Alex - a medic reluctantly dispatched onto a Turkish Merchant vessel which has rescued a group of stranded African boat people between Malta and Italy - gets stuck on the boat as the countries wage a bureaucratic war over who should take in the migrants... The stories unravel in parallel and culminate tragically when the fishermen are traced down, but by that time there's only one survivor.—Rebecca Cremona

Inspired by incredible real events, two parallel stories of survival at sea unravel around the Mediterranean island of Malta and culminate tragically when a Maltese fishing family is left stranded in open water, being mistaken for African migrants.—Anonymous