This colorfully illustrated love story for children and adults follows our fisherman through his various actions and emotions while trying to catch the fish of his dreams. As he does so, we see how his feelings of frustration and acts of desperation take him to the breaking point, wherein by his surrender to the hopelessness of his situation leads to unusual results. Once he has the fish, or so he thinks, he reflects on the events and achieves an unexpected moral resolve for both himself and the fish.