Summary

High above the streets of San Francisco, accountant Chris Janson crunches numbers and keeps her heart on lockdown. She’s a working single mom in survival mode haunted by the memory of her mother — a fearless fisherwoman lost to the sea.

That old wound is ripped open when her fearless teen daughter, Lucie, begins echoing the grandmother she never knew. Chris tries to remain neutral, to keep the past buried. Until a death in the family calls them back to the rugged Northern California coast for a last summer season to grieve and, ultimately, to settle the fate of the debt-strapped salmon boat they’ve inherited.

There, in a fading fishing town fighting to preserve its eco-friendly fishing tradition, mother and daughter confront the tangled net of heartbreak, resentment, and identity they’ve long avoided. Old wounds reopen. Truths surface. And as Chris and Lucie clash, connect, and slowly begin to heal, a new way of life begins to emerge — raw, real, and unexpectedly beautiful.

But as summer winds down, the question remains: Do they play it safe and return… or risk everything for the chance to live their dreams today? Catch of the Day is a poignant drama about grief, legacy, and the danger of waiting to really live while the soul yearns for a someday that may never come.