Illegal fishing has stripped Indonesian waters for decades, with foreign trawlers hauling out catch that by some estimates leaves one in four fish caught illegally worldwide. This film follows the country's response under its Minister of Marine and Fisheries, who has ordered the destruction of more than 200 seized vessels rather than let them return to sea. Cameras join a naval patrol boarding and inspecting foreign boats in Indonesian waters, tracking the process from interception through confiscation to the eventual scuttling or blowing up of the ships. Fishermen, officials, and patrol crews describe what is at stake if the current catch rate continues, with warnings that the seas could be emptied of fish by 2050. The film sets the patrols against the wider picture of organized international fishing operations working the region's waters, and against a government willing to destroy valuable equipment to make its point. It is a look at enforcement as spectacle and as policy, and at what it takes to police an ocean nobody quite owns.