A troubled woman returns to her estranged family in coastal Maine. With her lobsterman father caught up in a turf war at sea, she and an ex-boyfriend make plans to hijack local drug runners. As their desperation mounts, each character makes increasingly compromised and morally dubious decisions that threaten their way of life and their loved ones.
Acting
Bill Sage's weathered desperation as a man clinging to dying industry.
Cinematography
Bleak Maine coastline as character—gray, unforgiving, beautiful.
Director
Matthew Ya-Hsiung Balzer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film captures real Maine lobstering tensions: warming waters, dwindling catches, and territorial violence that rarely makes headlines.
Director Balzer grew up in coastal New England and cast actual lobstermen as extras—their authentic gear-handling wasn't taught.
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