In Gabès, a coastal oasis now choked by a chemical complex, Fathia harvests clams in poisoned waters. The sea that once sustained her family is fading—its salt, its silence, a mirror of all that’s been lost. Her husband, no longer able to fish, scours the shallows. Her youngest son abandons school to help. And Fadhel, her eldest and also a fisherman, leaves by sea, seeking survival for his family when none is left at home. Fathia searches for him, lighting candles and whispering prayers to the sea, but the waves give no answers. Her health falters. The clam trade dies. Abdelkrim, shattered by desperation, takes work guarding the very force that poisoned them. Far away, Fadhel discovers that exile offers no escape. In Europe, he becomes what he tried to flee: exploited, used, discarded—just like the land and sea he left behind. His silence weighs heavily on his mother, who senses the truth he’s hiding without needing words.