Isaac Cooper, a cantankerous character with a dry wit and reluctant to join the modern world around him, is a Gulf Coast Fisherman born and raised on Galveston Island. For twenty six years, he has run a marginally successful fishing business and serving as a 49% owner. That is until, the majority owner and widow of his former boss; Thelma Dotson offers to sell him the remaining 51% before she moves to California. The catch, he only has four months to come up with $300,000, almost ten times what he cleared in the previous year after taxes. After twenty-six years, his goal is finally in reach...