Dos pescadores de Bombay, Rakesh y Ganesh, se enfrentan a grandes cambios en su profesión y su vida. Mientras Rakesh sigue apostando por la herencia del Koli, un sistema ancestral de pesca que se rige por el ciclo lunar y las mareas, Ganesh se ha ido alejando de la tradición y ha intentado incorporar la tecnología en su barco pesquero.
The decision to move to Holland doesn't sound like a wise idea. Why move to a country that could be flooded at any moment? For the last 25 years, the political climate has shifted. The public debate on migration has become harsher, more heated, and polarized. What would have been considered right-wing xenophobia back then, is now considered mainstream. Populists simplify complex realities into good and evil, victims and perpetrators: ‘us’ versus ‘them’. Their rhetoric often consists of dehumanizing words and metaphors. One of these is ‘water’. In reality, water is not an immediate threat to the average Dutch person; but it is a huge threat to the thousands trying to reach the Netherlands. People trying to survive the Mediterranean Sea in rubber boats. Trying to survive winter on the Aegean coast in primitive tents. To them, water really is deadly.
A group of expatriates from the nation of Tuvalu returns home after 20 years to find their homeland facing irreversible tragedy due to rising sea levels caused by global warming.