Paul Nevison

Family fault lines are exposed when the sudden death of a beloved wife and mother splinters a close-knit religious family. A quiet son on the threshold between childhood and adolescence, must hold together the fraying threads of his family, before an emotionally charged misunderstanding sees him take the fall as a result of an existential standoff between his father and a silent God.

Meksi is a proud Father and experienced fisherman, but his efforts to provide are constantly thwarted by an unreliable boat engine that puts him and his family’s already precarious situation in greater jeopardy. “The Fisherman” is an intimate portrait of a Mother and Father’s hopes and struggles to provide for their young family despite the limitations of poverty on the Indonesian island of Rote.