Kenai, Alaska. July 1998. Commercial fishing has been closed for nine days. Dozens of workers have lost nearly an entire year's income waiting for regulations to lift... all while a nearby tourist spot teems with joyfully unregulated sportfishermen.

A student's increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host to take a vulnerable turn.

A student's increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host to take a vulnerable turn.

With the guidance of his best friend and mystical grandfather, a young painter – anxiously awaiting his first gallery show – embarks on a surreal skateboard odyssey through Portland to discover the true value of his art.