Wild salmon populations across the Pacific Northwest are crashing, and this Patagonia-produced film asks whether hatcheries and fish farms are saving the species or finishing it off. It follows biologists, fishermen, and Indigenous activists from Washington's rivers to Norway's open-net salmon pens, tracing how decades of hatchery programs built to compensate for dammed rivers have instead bred fish that compete with and weaken their wild cousins. Interviews cover the collapse of the Elwha and Snake River runs, the fight over the Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, and the escape of thousands of farmed Atlantic salmon into Puget Sound in 2017, an incident the film treats as a warning shot. Founder Yvon Chouinard appears throughout, arguing that technology built to fix a broken ecosystem usually just moves the damage somewhere else. The film keeps returning to a single tension: whether humans can keep engineering nature back into balance, or whether every fix creates a new problem for the fish, and for the people who depend on them.