Eduino Quadros fishes tuna the way his family has for generations, standing on his cutter with a bamboo rod while his fifteen-man crew hauls in fish weighing 60 to 80 kilograms. It is the only method of tuna fishing allowed in the Azores, and among the most sustainable anywhere, a deliberate contrast to the industrial trawlers and floating processing ships that dominate global tuna catches. The film follows Eduino's boat through an unpredictable season, weeks that yield nothing followed by a single school that fills a month's quota, while EU regulations set a minimum catch weight of ten kilograms and cap totals per species. Once that quota is hit, the crew earns nothing regardless of what the sea offers. Only around thirty boats still work this way in the autonomous Portuguese archipelago, and fewer young Azoreans are willing to take up the backbreaking work. Eduino's own question drives the film: why does his small, low-impact fleet face tighter scrutiny than the industrial operations fishing the same ocean.