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.
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